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To: Sleeping Beauty

What’s old is new, again (Barbary Pirates circa. 18th & early 19th centuries). That’s where the line “to the shores of Tripoli” came from in the Marine Corps Hymn.

http://www.crf-usa.org/bria/bria18_1.htm


3 posted on 05/21/2007 1:11:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
(Barbary Pirates circa. 18th & early 19th centuries).

Exactly! I thought of that when I posted this.

6 posted on 05/21/2007 1:27:38 PM PDT by Sleeping Beauty
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