Marine Corps League

Thames River Detachment #1334

P. O. Box 254, Quaker Hill, Ct. 06375

More talk about the United States Marine Corps,

what more can we say!

13. For all of those that have son's and daughter's at boot camp let me pass on what I found. Let me give you a little background first., When my son left home he had no motivation, he was  lazy, sloppy, no pride, no self worth. This is the boy that got off the bus, March 18 at Parris Island. The man that I met on Thursday is AWESOME. There is no way I can describe to you the difference. He looks different, he walks different, he talks different, he has such a sense of bearing and pride., all I could do was to look at him in awe, Oh yes, the training is hard, what he went through is unimaginable to any one that has not been there. They are definitely taught to be warriors. Let me tell you the surprise of what else they are taught. My Marine son has better values, better morals, better manners than any one I know. It is so much more than Yes Sir, Yes Mame. So much more. He cares about how he looks, he cares about what he does, and it not a boastful, bad ass thing. He is a true gentleman. I saw patience, and a calmness in him that I have never seen. I could never express my gratitude enough to the Marine Corps for what they have given to my son. I know this, I have an 11 year old Devil Dog still at home. When the times comes for his turn, if I had to take him kicking and screaming all the way, Although I'm sure that will never happen. The hero worship I see in my younger son's eyes for his Marine brother tells me I will have two Marines in the family, and I will be one very proud mother.

Cybil; Mother of a Marine writing to her son's Company Commander at Parris Island.

14. The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next five hundred years.

James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, 23 February 1945

15. I have just returned from visiting the Marines up at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world.

General of the Armies Douglas MacArtur, Korea, 21 September 1950

16.  We have two companies of Marines running all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing, What the hell is going on.

Gen. John W. Vessey Jr; Chairman for the Joint Chief's of Staff during the assault on Grenada

17.  Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweiler's or Dobermans, because Marine come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean, There're aggressive  on the attack and tenacious on defense. They got short hair and the always go for the throat.

RAdm."Jay" R. Stark, U.S.N. 10 November 1995

18.  They told us to open up the Embassy or "We'll blow you away." And then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns, and they said in Somali, "Igaralli ahow, "which means" Excuse me, I didn't mean it, my mistake."

Karen Aquilar, in the U.S. Embassy; Mogadishu, Somalia 1991

19.  For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines and we win battles.

Gen. Charles C. Krulak, USMC; 3 May 1997

20.  Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?

GySgt. Daniel J. Daly, USMC near Lucy-Le-Bocage as he led the 5th. Marines in their attack into Belleau Wood in 1918.

21  Gone to Florida to fight Indians, will be back when the war is over.

Col. Archibald Henderson USMC in a note pinned to his office door 1836.

22.  Don't you forget that you're the First Marines! Not all the communists in hell can overrun you!

Col. Chester B. Puller, USMC rallying his First Marine Regiment near the Chosin Reservoir, Korea, 1950.

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