[virgil283]

....."One of the Iraqis elaborated, and with tears welling up, said, “They’d run like any normal man would to save his life. ”What he didn’t know until then, and what he learned that very instant, was that Marines are not normal. Choking past the emotion, he said, “Sir, in the name of God, no sane man would have stood there and done what they did. They saved us all.”

[ConorMacNessa]

It's late this evening and I don't have the time to fact check myself, but I believe Gen. Kelly gave this address shortly after his son fell valiantly in battle. Another of his sons serves still.

When I think of the valor displayed by the men who stood against sure death in this instance, the valor displayed by men with whom I have stood on the field of battle, and the grace under extreme loss displayed by Gen. Kelly in the face of the recent loss of his son, I am simply overwhelmed.

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."