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skeptic

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Nov 9, 2017, 5:53 pm

I was in from 1957 to l963.

SEMPER FI !!

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Nov 10, 2017, 6:15 am

A Birthday message from the Marine Corp Commandant:

https://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/2017/11/242nd-marine-corps-birthday-message-commandant-marine-corps

A mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions!

Catch-22: A dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges: When the republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous.

The best way to learn is to never stop being an Experiential Student!
music*

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Nov 10, 2017, 11:48 am

As Marines like to say, "Once a Marine, always a Marine". Happy Birthday to the Corps!

Pronounced "Core".

"We are all in this together!"
LiveInGreenBay

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Nov 10, 2017, 1:54 pm

73 to 76. Semper Fi

Never give up.
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Nov 10, 2017, 8:35 pm

Happy Birthday Marines, Thank you and God Bless.
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Nov 13, 2017, 5:22 pm

Quote: Originally posted by sully16 on Nov 10, 2017
Happy Birthday Marines, Thank you and God Bless.

Go .....USMC
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Nov 13, 2017, 7:36 pm

Isn't there a tradition where the youngest member of the Corps serves the oldest member a slice of birthday cake?
music*

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Nov 14, 2017, 9:38 am

Quote: Originally posted by skeptic on Nov 9, 2017
I was in from 1957 to l963.

SEMPER FI !!

Were you in Florida during the Cuban missile crisis? JFK saved the World with his common sense diplomacy. It is a shame that he was not able to end the Vietnam war before it started.

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skeptic

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Quote: Originally posted by music* on Nov 14, 2017
Were you in Florida during the Cuban missile crisis? JFK saved the World with his common sense diplomacy. It is a shame that he was not able to end the Vietnam war before it started.

In Camp LeJeune mobilized and waiting for the word to go. It never came ....

Yes- the younger gives a slice of cake to the older -

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