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[ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=xTo22Gu-lag"]YouTube - USMC 232 Birthday Message from Commandant[/ame]

Capt John W. Thomason Jr.: Fix Bayonets 1926 said:
There were Northwesterners with straw-colored hair … and delicately spoken chaps with the stamp of the Eastern universities on them. There were large-boned fellows from Pacific-coast lumber camps, and tall, lean Southerners who swore amazingly in gentle, drawling voices. There were husky farmers from the corn-belt, and youngsters who had sprung, as it were, to arms from the necktie counter. And there were also a number of diverse people who ran curiously to type, with drilled shoulders and a bone-deep sunburn, and a tolerant scorn of nearly everything on earth. …

They were the Leathernecks … the old breed of American regular, regarding the service as home and war as an occupation; and they transmitted their temper and character and view-point into the high-hearted volunteer mass which filled the ranks of the Marine Brigade.

There is nothing particularly glorious about sweaty fellows, laden with killing tools, going along to fight. And yet—such a column represents a great deal more than 28,000 individuals mustered into a division. All that is behind those men is in that column, too: the old battles, long forgotten, that secured our nation … traditions of things endured and things accomplished, such as regiments hand down forever … and that abstract thing called patriotism, which I never heard combat soldiers mention—all this passes into the forward zone, to the point of contact, where war is girt with horrors. And common men endure these horrors and overcome them, along with the insistent yearnings of the belly and the reasonable promptings of fear; and in this, I think, is glory.
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A salute to our BP Marines

While I am not military, I have spent the last few Nov. 10ths getting rip-roaring drunk with my retired/reserve USMC buddies as they celebrated the Corp's birthday. As all of them are currently overseas or otherwise unavailable, I just wanted to say a heartfelt thank you to all of the BP members who protect our country. Observing how all the Marines whom I've had the pleasure to know, regardless of how they felt about their tenure in the USMC, gathered on this day to celebrate the brotherhood that is unique to the Corps made a great impression on me. While the significance of your dedication can never be fully expressed, I just want to show my genuine gratitude. Thank you all for your service, and may God bless you and your loved ones.
 
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generaladm;1321774; said:
While I am not military, I have spent the last few Nov. 10ths getting rip-roaring drunk with my retired/reserve USMC buddies as they celebrated the Corp's birthday. As all of them are currently overseas or otherwise unavailable, I just wanted to say a heartfelt thank you to all of the BP members who protect our country. Observing how all the Marines whom I've had the pleasure to know, regardless of how they felt about their tenure in the USMC, gathered on this day to celebrate the brotherhood that is unique to the Corps made a great impression on me. While the significance of your dedication can never be fully expressed, I just want to show my genuine gratitude. Thank you all for your service, and may God bless you and your loved ones.
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Now that's a reason to get drunk tonight.

Happy Birthday MARINES!

Thanks.

R.I.P. Uncle Ralph.
 
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The US Marines Mark 235th Anniversary Today....

"Happy 235th Birthday, Marines!!!!" MARINE CORPS SONG OF VALOR by OIF USMC
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/watch?v=1sPHfPmePNI

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXpUcRVzV1s"]YouTube - USMC Marines Hymn Marine Corps Band Halls of Montezuma[/ame]

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