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I got this video today on the Facebook group: Let's find over 1,000,000 supporters of the U.S. Marine Corps It will touch your heart...I know it has mine. Thank God for USMC LC Seth Sharp and all like him who understand the cost and worth of liberty. God rest his soul and God comfort and bless his family, loved ones, and friends...may they be sure in the knowledge of a glorious resurrection and reuniting with this fallen hero. Video of USMC LC Seth Sharp Motorcade July 10, 2009 - Adairsville, GA, KIA Afghanistan July 2, 2009.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ii4j7Y-SOs

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — The Marine Corps is dropping all charges against a lance corporal who was accused of involuntary manslaughter in a squad's killing of 24 Iraqis in Haditha in 2005. The Marines dropped the case against 26-year-old Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum today as jury selection was about to begin for his court-martial at Camp Pendleton. He had also been charged with reckless endangerment and aggravated assault. The case against Tatum stemmed from a squad's assault in response to a roadside bombing of a convoy that killed one Marine and wounded two others. The government says a sergeant and...

If I don't, then who will?Vallejo Times Herald photo Profound, powerful words - a quote one might expect from a Greek philosopher or Mother Teresa, not a kid a couple of months shy of his 20th birthday. "Kid" may accurately describe LCpl West in chronological terms, but he was far more mature and wise than most people twice his age. He recognized terrorism's deadly threat, and as he graduated high school he was already making up his mind to become a Marine and fight for the very freedom many of us too easily take for granted. Phillip made it perfectly...