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Just wanted to send out a Happy Birthday to all of the Marines (current and former) out there. 231 Years of faithful service to God, Corps and Country.
If you are still on active duty, be careful and May God Bless You and keep you safe.
OOhRah and
Here's a toast to 231 years of tradition unmarred by progress!
Sergeant of Marines.
RockyTrail
11-10-2006, 19:14
SEMPER FI!
(and salute!)
(from the son of a Marine family)
Lone Wolf
11-10-2006, 19:18
Semper Fi Devil Dogs!
skeeterfeeder
11-10-2006, 20:33
Thank you!
Semper Fi!
Frolicking Dinosaurs
11-10-2006, 21:15
Semper Fi !!! (http://www.happydaycards.com/birthdays/marine2.html)
happy birthday to my brothers and sisters in the USMC:cool: neo
US NAVY 78-82
USS TARAWA LHA-1
7 TH FLEET AMPIBIOUS ASSAULT
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greentick
11-10-2006, 22:01
Just wanted to send out a Happy Birthday to all of the Marines (current and former) out there. 231 Years of faithful service to God, Corps and Country.
If you are still on active duty, be careful and May God Bless You and keep you safe.
OOhRah and
Drive on brothers!!!!!!!!!
Congrats on crushing our enemies and breaking their s*** for 231 years!
Only kind of "make-up" I ever LIKED wearing! Happy Birthday Marines!
little bear
11-10-2006, 23:15
semper fi leather necks
Happy Birthday Brothers
Thanks, Coopdog.
local
USMCR, 1961-1967
Da Nang and environs, 1968-1969
Only kind of "make-up" I ever LIKED wearing! Happy Birthday Marines!
:) you look so hot and sexy michele:cool: neo
SGT Rock
11-11-2006, 02:34
It is Veterans Day here in Iraq now and this was posted on CNN when I got up:
CNN) -- President Bush announced on Friday that the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration, will be awarded posthumously to Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham.
In April 2004, Dunham was leading a patrol in an Iraqi town near the Syrian border when the patrol stopped a convoy of cars leaving the scene of an attack on a Marine convoy, according to military and media accounts of the action.
An occupant of one of the cars attacked Dunham and the two fought hand to hand. As they fought, Dunham yelled to fellow Marines, "No, no watch his hand." The attacker then dropped a grenade and Dunham hurled himself on top of it, using his helmet to try to blunt the force of the blast.
Still, Dunham was critically wounded in the explosion and died eight days later at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
"As long as we have Marines like Corporal Dunham, America will never fear for her liberty," Bush said Friday as he announced that Dunham would receive the award. Bush spoke at the dedication of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Virginia. (Watch announcement of award at museum -- 1:27)
"His was a selfless act of courage to save his fellow Marines," Sgt. Maj. Daniel A. Huff of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, was quoted as saying in Marine Corps News that April.
"He knew what he was doing," Lance Cpl. Jason A. Sanders, 21, of McAllester, Oklahoma, who was in Dunham's company, was quoted as saying by Marine Corps News. "He wanted to save Marines' lives from that grenade."
In various media accounts, fellow Marines told how Dunham had extended his enlistment shortly before he died so he could help his comrades.
"We told him he was crazy for coming out here," Lance Cpl. Mark E. Dean, 22, from Owasso, Oklahoma, said in Marine Corps News. "He decided to come out here and fight with us. All he wanted was to make sure his boys made it back home."
"He loved his country, believed in his mission, and wanted to stay with his fellow Marines and see the job through," Vice President Dick Cheney said when speaking of Dunham's heroism at a Disabled American Veterans conference in July 2004.
The Scio, New York, native would have been 25 years old on Friday.
In a letter urging Bush to honor Dunham with the Medal of Honor, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, called the Marine's actions "an act of unbelievable bravery and selflessness."
Dunham's story was told in the book "The Gift of Valor," written by Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Phillips.
Dunham will be the second American to receive the Medal of Honor from service in Iraq.
Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith was the other, honored for action near Baghdad International Airport in April 2003, in which he killed as many as 50 enemy combatants while helping wounded comrades to safety. Smith was the only U.S. soldier killed in the battle.
Semper Fi my Marine brothers.
Don't forget that on Monday November 13, 2006. All Golden Corral Resturants in conjunction with our annual "Military Appreciation Night" will feed all retired,reserve & active duty military personel free of charge from 5-9 pm. No questions asked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You Have done your part now its time for us to do ours. I have read how hikers like to eat well nows your chance to do so. Belly Up, Its Chow Hall Seating & we got plenty food. mmmm mmmm good:banana
Two Speed
11-11-2006, 07:06
Thank you.
Furlough
11-11-2006, 08:16
Happy Birthday and Semper Fi to my Marine Corps Brothers and Sisters.
LTC Harry Hicock
US Army
Baghdad
aka - Furlough
AbeHikes
11-11-2006, 11:56
Semper Fidelis, Devil Dogs!
wilderness bob
11-11-2006, 12:17
My son-in-law, Brad, is in the corps. My daughter could not have asked for a better man.
Happy Birthday Marines
Wilderness Bob
MSG, USA (RET)