Happy Birthday, Marines!

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It’s the Marines’ 235th birthday today, so I’d just like to thank the Marines for how they make this a better world to live in by removing people who make it a worse world to live in. I found out there is a new Warrior Song dedicated just to the Marines (I’m guessing because they didn’t like being called “soldiers” in the original version), so here it is in tribute:

And one way you can celebrate the Marines’ birthday is helping Team Marines raise money for the Valour-IT fundraiser. It’s tech to help wounded warriors, so give generously in thanks to the Marines.

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  2. Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
    That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
    Let him depart; his passport shall be made
    And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
    We would not die in that man’s company
    That fears his fellowship to die with us.
    This day is called the feast of Crispian:
    He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
    Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
    And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
    He that shall live this day, and see old age,
    Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
    And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’
    Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
    And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’
    Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
    But he’ll remember with advantages
    What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
    Familiar in his mouth as household words
    Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
    Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
    Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.
    This story shall the good man teach his son;
    And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
    From this day to the ending of the world,
    But we in it shall be remember’d;
    We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
    For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
    Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
    This day shall gentle his condition:
    And gentlemen in England now a-bed
    Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
    And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
    That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

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  4. Thank you Frank, thank you all…..This country is in the biggest fight of it’s life. We’re being threatened by our own government, but I believe in my heart that America will survive. It’s up to all of us. We’re in this together…..Semper Fi….

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  6. The continued existence of the United Marine Corps is a tribute to the crazy, brave ideas of our Founding Fathers and all former and current Marines who understand what America is all about – I wish I could say the same for most Americans.

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  7. USSJC….I wish all it took was for somebody to turn us loose on the “Evil Doers”…..the major problem, and the reason this situation is such a threat, is that the “EDs” is us. Sort of. There’s the Evil Doers, and then there’s the ones who have been hornswoggled by the Evil Doers, and then there’s the rest of us. That would be the “We the People” you’re referring to. Somebody come up with a way to sort em out, and then it’s doable……….

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  10. When a Marine say’s I got your back, citizen, he means you can turn around now and face your enemies, no matter who or where they are, no matter what it takes, the USMC will do their duty and do it well. Your country is honored, humbled and grateful, more than we can say, more than you will ever know.

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