I don't feel like a 234 year old
Tue, 11/10/2009 - 1:30am
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November 10, 1775 is the birth date of the United States Marine Corps. The "Marine" is a peculiar breed,There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines,,"Marines and the enemy". Everyone else has a seconed hand opinion. All militaries harden their recuits, instill the basics, and bend young men to their will. But the Marine Corps provides its members with a secret weapon. It gives them a "unique culture of pride", that makes the Marine the worlds premier warrior force. They call this culture "Espirt de Corps" Gen. Wm. Thornson U.S. Army 1956
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Semper Fidelis & Happy Birthday
Krolchiha,
Please give your Captain a "Hoorah!" from the Indiana Marines
C.J.S.
Last year at A.F.D. H.Q.
Happy Birthday Marine....You look good for 234 years.....Semper Fi!!!!!
Like stars across the sky … . E per avvincere ….. Tu dovrai vincere ...
We were born to shine …All of us here because we believe......
Happy birthday, and many more!
Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept
What is a vet?
He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in
He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat - but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs. He is the parade - riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand. He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.
He is any of the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb of the Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep. He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket - palsied now
and aggravatingly slow - who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come. He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being - a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.
He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.
So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say "Thank You." That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded. Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU". Remember November 11th is Veterans Day
"It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier,
Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag."
Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC
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