SAN CLEMENTE – Sgt. Rob Elliott's square-jawed face isn't set in bronze yet, but the women weren't about to wait. A half-dozen just wanted to hug him...after he was introduced as the model for a larger-than-life monument proposed for a bluff near the town's pier.
"The very thought that the Marines will be between me and the rest of the world ... it makes me feel good," said Judith Schalick, 70, a 10-year resident of the Villa Grande complex.
"If the East Coast has the minuteman, why can't the West Coast have the dress blues? "I know the Air Force will be a little jealous," Schalick said, smiling. "But it's a Marine town, what can you say?"
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