Happy Birthday Marines!!!!

[Lt. Dan]

From one Jarhead, to all of my Brothers serving all over the world... Happy 231st!!! SEMPER FI!!!!

Dan

 

[freekwonder]

Got to it before me. Happy Birthday Marines. Ohh Rah and Semper Fi!!!
Lance Nelson
Cpl. USMC

They told (us) to open up the Embassy, or "we'll blow you away." And then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns, and they said in Somali, "Igaralli ahow," which means "Excuse me, I didn't mean it, my mistake".
Karen Aquilar, in the <st1:country-region><st1>U.S.</st1></st1:country-region> Embassy; <st1><st1:city>Mogadishu</st1:city>, <st1:country-region>Somalia</st1:country-region></st1>, 1991<o>

</o> The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next five hundred years.
James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy; <st1:date year="1945" day="23" month="2">23 February 1945</st1:date><o>

</o> The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the <st1:country-region><st1>United States</st1></st1:country-region> Marine Corps!
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the <st1:country-region><st1>United States</st1></st1:country-region>, 1945<o>

</o> Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.
the mythical GySgt. Hartman, USMC; portrayed by GySgt. R. Lee Ermey, a Marine Corps Drill Instructor using his own choice of words in Full Metal Jacket, 1987<o>

</o> My only answer as to why the Marines get the toughest jobs is because the average Leatherneck is a much better fighter. He has far more guts, courage, and better officers... These boys out here have a pride in the Marine Corps and will fight to the end no matter what the cost.
2nd Lt. Richard C. Kennard, Peleliu, World War II

By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on <st1><st1>Iwo</st1><st1> Island</st1></st1>, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Admiral Chester W. <st1><st1:city>Nimitz</st1:city>, <st1:country-region>U.S.</st1:country-region></st1> Navy<o>

</o> The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle.
Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing, U.S. Army
Commander of American Forces in World War I

Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army.
Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War;
shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered
to not wear their khaki leggings.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
General of the Armies Douglas McArthur in <st1:country-region><st1>Korea</st1></st1:country-region>,
overheard and reported by Marine Staff Sergeant Bill Houghton, Weapons/2/5
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"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem. "
Ronald Reagan, President of the <st1:country-region><st1>United States</st1></st1:country-region>; 1985<o></o>

 

[RODSCALIP5]

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