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November 10, 2007: 232nd Marine Corps Birthday_____
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The Marines celebrated their 232nd Birthday, today November 10.
We'll promise you. Sleep deprivation, mental torture and muscles so sore you 'll puke. But, we don't like to sugar coat things.
The Marines
We realize more and more that life's events are what make it all worthwhile and that, happy, hopefully better prepared for what may come.
It has been said that good judgement is often a result of experience while experience is often a result of bad judgement.
Here's hoping all your judgements next year are great and easily gained and that whatever inspired travails you have experienced this year end up on the plus side of your ledger.
Ev. Cowley, super Marine
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I am thankful for the times when I was starving, and there was sustenance to see me through the day even when I had no food.
I am thankful for the nights without restless dreams. I am thankful for the courage provided when I knew I had none in myself.
I am thankful for the wisdom granted to me when my enemies were full of wit and trickery, and I was at my ebb of mentality. I am thankful for the quenching of my thirst when there was nothing to drink.
I am thankful for the peace when I knew torture was yet to come, and for the numbness to pain that followed. I am thankful for the filling of my soul when my enemies had done everything to destroy it. Former POW
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November 11, 2007: Veterans Day_____
But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate. We can not consecrate. We cannot hallow this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, we struggled here, have consecrated, far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what we did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here to the thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us.
That from these honored dead we can taked increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
That this nation shall have a new birth of freedom and that the government by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth...
Abraham Lincoln
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Older Men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumps of the aftermath of war.
--- Herbert Hoover(speech 1944)
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Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
To you from falling hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.
Monia Michael was a Georgia
school teacher when she wrote,
We shall Keep The Faith, in 1918,
inspired by John McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Fields. Thus began the tradition of wearing red poppies to honor fallen soldiers
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| Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. Theodore Rubin
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