happy birthday Marines

[harmonica]

10 November 1775 Tun Tavern ...

 

[Harpy Eagle]

 

[whitehall]

Semper Fi.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Got to hang out today with the last WW2 vet I know. Served in WW2, was in Israel for the 48 war of independence, Korea and Vietnam. And still fits in the uniform he retired in.

Don’t make them like that anymore.

 

[Concerned American]

Got to hang out today with the last WW2 vet I know. Served in WW2, was in Israel for the 48 war of independence, Korea and Vietnam. And still fits in the uniform he retired in.

Don’t make them like that anymore.

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Established Nov. 10, 1775 at Tun Tavern, 8th and I St., Philadelphia, PA. Two Hundred Forty-Six years old today. Semper Fidelis!

 

[miketx]

My wife is a Marine. Camp Pendleton 1969.

 

[Concerned American]

My wife is a Marine. Camp Pendleton 1969.

I joined in Oct. 68. I was stationed at MCSC Barstow in 69-70, WestPac/Vietnam, 71 and Pendleton 72. Semper Fi!

 

[whitehall]

Semper Fi.

 

[harmonica]

already a thread

happy birthday Marines

10 November 1775 Tun Tavern ...

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[Concerned American]

10 November 1775 Tun Tavern ...
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Semper Fidelis!

 

[harmonica]

just went to my first USMC Ball in over 30 years, OOOORAHHHH

 

[Concerned American]

Semper Fidelis!

Good Night Dan Daly, Good Night Chesty Puller. Good Night Ira Hayes.

 

[harmonica]

Good Night Dan Daly, Good Night Chesty Puller. Good Night Ira Hayes.

my dad said he saw Chesty at the Chosin ...

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Got to hang out today with the last WW2 vet I know. Served in WW2, was in Israel for the 48 war of independence, Korea and Vietnam. And still fits in the uniform he retired in.

Don’t make them like that anymore.

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Memories Bring Paralysis

My experience with the Marines (033l H/2/5) reminds me of the song "Angel Flight." Thirty-eight of the 150 Marines I was with got killed in my half-tour in combat. In 1972, on a drive from Chicago to Miami, I had an urge to visit the grave of one of them in Canton, Ohio, but I just couldn't go through with it.

 

[skye]

Happy Birthday Marines!

 

[whitehall]

GySgt. John Basilone USMC awarded the MOH for action as a machinegun squad leader on Guadalcanal. He couldn't take the phoniness of the Hollywood Bond Drive so he went back to the fighting and was KIA on Iwo Jima. Semper Fi.

 

[Mushroom]

Established Nov. 10, 1775 at Tun Tavern, 8th and I St., Philadelphia, PA. Two Hundred Forty-Six years old today. Semper Fidelis!

Actually, it was at Water Street and Tun Alley. 8th and I is the location of the Marine Headquarters in Washington DC.

 

[Concerned American]

Actually, it was at Water Street and Tun Alley. 8th and I is the location of the Marine Headquarters in Washington DC.

Sorry, I stand corrected. Semper Fi.

 

[harmonica]

GySgt. John Basilone USMC awarded the MOH for action as a machinegun squad leader on Guadalcanal. He couldn't take the phoniness of the Hollywood Bond Drive so he went back to the fighting and was KIA on Iwo Jima. Semper Fi.

..I think Ira Hayes had trouble with the war bond ''stardom'''

Ira Hamilton Hayes - Corporal, United States Marine Corps

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[whitehall]

..I think Ira Hayes had trouble with the war bond ''stardom'''

Ira Hamilton Hayes - Corporal, United States Marine Corps

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They literally plucked these guys from arguably the most intense combat of the war and paraded them on freaking floats with hollywood stars and gave them all the booze they could drink to numb the PTSD pain. No wonder Hayes folded up. Ironically they mis-identified three of the Flag raisers.