Happy 249th birthday, Marine Corps...
Seems just like yesterday (July 1951) that I arrived at Yemassee in the middle of the night...
Attended our platoons 50th anniversary at PI a few years back. We were staying in Beaufort and made a side trip up to Yemassee to see the station. There's a memorial plaque at the station commemorating all the young Marine wannabees that arrived at Yemassee on their way to PI. Some of the recruits in our platoon came thru Yemassee, others ... including myself, flew into Charleston, then by bus to PI arriving in the middle of the night as well.