Posted on 11/10/2004 6:42:22 AM PST by Leisler
November 10, 2004 -- FORGIVE Mindy Evnin if she's not up for cake and candles today. Even if she knows how important this birthday was for her son. On this day in a Philadelphia tavern, the Continental Congress gave birth to the Marine Corps almost a full year before the Declaration of Independence. More than two centuries later in Fallujah, America still looks to the Marines to do the job no one else can. ....
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OUTF......STANDING!
Thank you for your service to our beloved America, An Old Marine! I will remember that you have two sons in the Marines, with one of them in Fallujah, and will periodically lift them up in prayer to our Gracious God, that His Protection and Grace would Abide over them both. God Bless them always, and you as well, great Patriot!
He was a good looking Marine
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Semper Fi CPL Evnin, semper fi.
During my work as a Navy Physician and all through my military career when associated with the USMC, I never ceased to be amazed at the tremendous honor and courage of US Marines.
In NROTC in college, I thought most of them were a bit "off"...but as I became wiser in the ways of the military, and in the ways of the world in general, I now realize how truly special these guys are. You can find no truer friend when in need and as a nation no truer protector of the freedoms we all take for granted.
As a child, I never realized how special and important the USMC is to our nation...even after finding out that my grandfather was a Marine at Okinawa in WWII.
God Bless the USMC.
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