And what if they were? Big deal.

We may hear a few more details about this story but in the meantime let me offer this observation:

How about if you, Target, shut your pie hole and let the guys– trying to save your butts so that you can sell some more stuff made in China– shop and perhaps even recruit in your freaking store? Really, was it so long ago that the left was suggesting everyone feel the pain from the war effort? The president said, be normal, don’t let the terrorists make you change for them, go shop and get your life back in order. Now that the Marines want to go shopping and these people say “NO”?

CHESAPEAKE – Two Marines in their dress uniforms – the ones with white hats, khaki shirts and blue trousers with red stripe – say they were accused of recruiting at a Target department store here and told to leave.
“We weren’t recruiting,” according to Cpl. Carlos Rodriguez, 22, who said he returned in October from his second combat tour in Iraq. “I just popped in to say hi to a guy I went to high school with. He works there.”
…But an assistant manager who saw Rodriguez and the other Marine apparently thought otherwise and showed them the door, according to both servicemen.
…Target has a strict no-solicitation policy, he said.
…Rodriguez said he and the other Marine were in the Target about 10 a.m. Monday, when they had some slack time from their duties. The second Marine, a private, asked not to be identified because he’s new to the Corps, but he affirmed Rodriguez’s account.
…Rodriguez, who is getting out of the Marines in June, and the private, who just completed boot camp training at Parris Island, S.C., are both on temporary duty back in their hometown of Chesapeake.
…While they are assigned to a local recruiting office, they are not recruiters and work only as assistants, Rodriguez said.
He said he was talking to his high school friend in Target “briefly and then we were walking toward the CDs when this guy comes out of nowhere. He was the shift manager, or something, and the first thing he started saying was, ‘You guys are recruiters, right?’ “
The assistant manager said he couldn’t have the Marines in the store soliciting workers for the military while they were on the company’s clock, Rodriguez said.

“I didn’t want to make a scene,” Rodriguez said. “We were representing Marines anyway just by wearing the uniform, so I kept my mouth shut.

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Sure is different from the Brits allowing their hostages to tell their stories for money. Find that story here.