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60 posted on 06/12/2016 4:42:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)

My best memories were of my first days after boot camp serving with mainly older WWII Marines, most of them Staff NCOs, though there were were double/tripled hashmarked corporals and buck sergeants among them.
And, a few even older China Marines, POWs, Nicaragua, etc.

Many of the corporals and sergeants,only slightly older than myself at 17, were veterans of the Inchon landing and frozen Chosin!

I am honored to have served with them and cherish my memories of those now long ago days.

Semper FIDELIS
Dick Gaines
*****

65 posted on 06/12/2016 5:20:20 PM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)