Hello everyone, it’s been a while. Did you miss me? Today I’ve got something to talk about and it’s the greatest fight club of them all. No I’m not talking about the movie. I’m talking about something even better. Today, November 10th is the 246th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. 🇺🇸
From the days of the American Revolution, to the war with the Barbary States and the Battle of Tripoli, from the War of 1812, the Civil War, to the Spanish-American War all the way to the Boxer Rebellion in China, the Marines have been here to protect our nation and her interests at home and abroad. How many people can boast a resume like that?
Sergeant Daniel Daly a boy from the slums of Brooklyn, survivor of the Boxer Rebellion in Peking, having killed thirty of them in one night won the Congressional Medal of Honor a record, count them, three times. There’s a guy you don’t want to mess with.
All throughout out the Pacific during World War II, Guadalcanal, Saipan, and Iwo Jima, where it was the Marines who raised our flag atop Mt. Suribachi immortalized in that photo. Our Marines are always there.
From the Chosin Reservoir in Korea where the held out against impossible odds, to Khe Sahn in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Marines lead the way. The motto of the Marines Corps is Semper Fidelis a Latin phrase meaning, “Always Faithful,” and they are certainly that.
If the Army and the Navy
The best way I think to finish this post is with the closing lines of the Marine Corps Hymn:
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven’s scenes
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines.
Even God knows who to call.
Happy 246th Birthday Marines!
Semper Fi! 🇺🇸
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