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UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY - November 10
National Day Calendar ^ | November 10, 2023 | Staff

Posted on 11/10/2023 5:22:06 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 11/10/2023 5:22:06 AM PST by Red Badger
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2 posted on 11/10/2023 5:22:53 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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3 posted on 11/10/2023 5:42:32 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Happy (Observed) Veteran’s Day!

To my Army friends, I say “Hooah”
To my Navy friends, I say “anchors aweigh”
To my Marine Corps friends, I say “Semper Fi”

And to my fellow Air Force friends, I say “FORE!”


4 posted on 11/10/2023 5:58:00 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Red Badger

Your tagline is poignant. A reminder of how far we’ve fallen…


5 posted on 11/10/2023 5:59:54 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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If I was in charge of education, every American would know the name William Eaton.


6 posted on 11/10/2023 6:00:43 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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I read that the Commander of CentCom cancelled the Marine Corps Ball this week, due to “unforeseen operational commitments.”


7 posted on 11/10/2023 6:09:48 AM PST by Pilsner
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I think that was a ‘local decision’............


8 posted on 11/10/2023 6:10:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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HISTORY OF THE MARINES’ HYMN

The Marines’ Hymn is one of the most readily recognized songs in the world today and is the oldest of the service songs of our country. The history of the hymn has been clouded by the passing of time and confused by oral tradition. But there is no confusion on the part of the listener when The Marines’ Hymn is heard. It is as easily identified with the Marine Corps as “The Star-Spangled Banner” is with our nation. To all Marines it has become a sacred symbol of the pride and professionalism of a Marine and you will find them standing straight and tall at the position of attention when it is performed.

The music to the hymn is believed to have originated in the comic opera Geneviéve de Brabant composed by the French composer Jacques Offenbach. Originally written as a two-act opera in 1859, Offenbach revised the work, expanding it to three acts in 1867. This revised version included the song “Couplets des Deux Hommes d’Armes” and is the musical source of The Marines’ Hymn.

The author of the words to the hymn is unknown. One tradition suggested that an unknown Marine wrote the words in 1847. This would have been 20 years before the music was written by Offenbach and is not likely. The first two lines of the first verse were taken from words inscribed on the Colors of the Corps.

After the war with the Barbary pirates in 1805 the Colors were inscribed with the words “To the Shores of Tripoli.” After Marines participated in the capture of Mexico City and the Castle of Chapultepec (also known as the Halls of Montezuma) in 1847, the words on the Colors were changed to read “From the shores of Tripoli to the Halls of Montezuma.” The unknown author of the first verse of the hymn reversed this order to read “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.”

In 1929 the Commandant of the Marine Corps authorized the first official version of the The Marines’ Hymn, in which the fourth line of the first verse originally read “On the land as on the sea.” This was revised to its present version on Nov. 21, 1942, when the Commandant of the Marine Corps approved changing this line to “In the air, on land, and sea,” acknowledging the important role of aviation within the Corps:

“From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country’s battles
In the air, on land, and sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean;
We are proud to claim the title
Of United States Marine.

Our flag’s unfurled to every breeze
From dawn to setting sun;
We have fought in ev’ry clime and place
Where we could take a gun;
In the snow of far-off Northern lands
And in sunny tropic scenes;
You will find us always on the job
The United States Marines

Here’s health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve;
In many a strife we’ve fought for life
And never lost our nerve;
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven’s scenes;
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines.”


9 posted on 11/10/2023 6:13:40 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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As a Army veteran, I remind my marine friends that November 10, Sesame Street debuted.


10 posted on 11/10/2023 6:30:29 AM PST by Psycho_Runner (Have a good day, unless you have other plans.)
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First flag of the United States marines.

Happy Birthday USMC!

11 posted on 11/10/2023 6:32:13 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
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My heartfelt best wishes for a USMC Happy Birthday!

And gratitude for all your service has done for this Nation!


12 posted on 11/10/2023 6:32:39 AM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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November 10th Celebrated (And Not So Celebrated) History

1775

The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Marines creating two battalions to protect and fight from land and sea.

1871

Journalist Henry Morton Stanley arrives in the village Ujiji in Tanzania after an eight-month-long search for the man he’d been looking for. “Mr. Livingstone, I presume?” he asks the thin and disheveled explorer many had assumed dead.

1969

Full of approachable Muppet characters and educational themes, Sesame Street debuted on PBS television.

1991

Home Alone starring Macaulay Culkin premiered in Chicago theaters.

November 10th Celebrated (And Not So Celebrated) Birthdays

Michael Strank - 1919

In 1939, Strank enlisted in the Marine Corps and attained the rank of sergeant. He was one of the six men raising the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945, during World War II. Sgt. Strank was killed only a few days later on March 1st.

Russell Means - 1939

Best known for his roles in Last of the Mohicans and Natural Born Killers, the actor and producer also served as the first national director of the American Indian Movement.

James Hood - 1942

Hood became one of the first African Americans to integrate the University of Alabama. In 1963, he and Vivian Malone drew national attention when Alabama Governor George Wallace defied the deputy attorney general. Later, the National Guard was called to assist and federalized by President John F. Kennedy to permit the students to attend.

Ellen Pompeo - 1969

The award-winning actress has played the role of Dr. Meredith Grey on Grey’s Anatomy since 2005.


13 posted on 11/10/2023 6:35:31 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: rlmorel; Red Badger

My heartfelt best wishes for a USMC Happy Birthday!

And gratitude for all your service has done for this Nation!


Ditto!

Well said :)


14 posted on 11/10/2023 6:40:48 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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Happy Marine Corps Birthday to every Marine reading and especially those who are members of Free Republic. (I take back every “Uncle Sam's Misguided Children” oath I've uttered over the years.) Semper Fi.
15 posted on 11/10/2023 6:45:20 AM PST by PsyCon
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“Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children”.........We wear it as a Badge of Honor................


16 posted on 11/10/2023 6:46:15 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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17 posted on 11/10/2023 6:53:19 AM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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As a Army veteran, I remind my marine friends that November 10, Sesame Street debuted.

And none of them are surprised you know that.

18 posted on 11/10/2023 7:00:53 AM PST by xone ( )
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Happy birthday U.S. Marine Corps!! Semper Fi! Each Marine models for all the steadfast faithfulness of God, who is always strong, loyal and never gives up.

Thank You For Your Eternal Faithfulness To Me

Dear Heavenly Father, I do trust You, but at times I wonder if my faith in You is sufficient. Praise God that my hope does not reply on my sufficiency but on Yours. My hope of eternal life in heaven with You does not depend on my righteousness or good works, but on You and on Your everlasting faithfulness, Your omnipotent strength and Your finished work of Calvary’s cross.

What I wonderful God You are, and I am beginning to understand what it means that I must nor rely on my own strength, for my strength will fail, but I am to rely on Your everlasting Strength and Your eternal faithfulness to finish the good work that You started in me the moment that I trusted You as Saviour.

Help me to abide in You and to trust in the promises that You have given to all Your children in the Bible, for Your Word is truth and cannot be broken. Oh thank You, Lord, that You chose to save all who trust in Jesus Christ, and have promised that even if my faith grows weak or fails, You will not forsake me, but have promised to remain faithful to finish the good work that You have started in me. Thank You Father,

Amen.

Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/prayer/thank-you-for-your-eternal-faithfulness-to-me-528

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Thank you King Jesus!


19 posted on 11/10/2023 7:01:12 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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20 posted on 11/10/2023 7:42:22 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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