An interesting side-note to Parade editor Larry Smith’s new book about those who build Marines – Parade publisher and CEO Walter Anderson was also a Marine, and has since attributed his success in life to what he learned in the Corps. Anderson said, as I reported at NRO back in November 2004, “‘What I am today is a result of the Marine Corps.’ Last year, following his keynote speech at a national media symposium in New York, Anderson was asked what was the proudest moment in his life: He answered, ‘the day I was promoted to lance corporal [in the Marines].’”