"One, two, three, four...
I love the Marine Corp! "
Me, too, and I'm Air Force.
When I was a kid in high school, one of my buddies (Dad's buddy, actually) had been in the first wave to hit the beach at Iwo Jima. Earl had some INTERESTING war stories to tell. Impressed heck out of one HS boy I knew... So much so that I DID NOT join the Marines, as I'm not that tough. I'm still glad that there are people that tough in our country, even if they come from Mexico. God Bless you, Sergeant Peralta, and your family, too.
Well, if we are going to trade stories...
My Grand-Father was in the "Fightin' 69th, 42nd Rainbow Division" in WWI, with "Wild Bill" Donovan and Father Duffy.
My uncle was a squid and my father was a Marine, but my father ran away and I joined the Navy because of that.