U.S. Marine Corps Birthday
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USMC Humor –
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Farewell Salutes –
Nickolas Alba – Kyle, TX; USMC, Purple Heart
Robert Bailey – Fort Wayne, IN; USMC, Korea, Purple Heart
Herbert Carlson – Hartford, CT; USMC, WWII, PTO
John ‘Dan” Driscoll – Frisco City, AL; USMC
Joseph Ehrenberger – Charlotte, NC; USMC, WWII & Korea
David Gates – Edwardsville, WY; USMC, Sgt., Fighter Attack Squadron 312
Jack Hamblin – Pittsburgh, PA; USMC, Korea
Roger Lagace – Manchester, CT; USMC, Cpl.
William Milovich – Cowpens, SC; USMC, WWII, PTO
Francis Morris – OK; Womens USMC, WWII
William Soderna – Deerton, MI; USMC, 5th Div/27th Marines, Japan Occupation
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Posted on November 10, 2018, in Korean War, WWII and tagged family history, History, Marines, Military, Military History, USA, USMC, veterans, WW2, WWII. Bookmark the permalink. 129 Comments.
My Dad joined the Marines when he was almost 17. When they realized how young he was, they kicked him out. Really upset him, too. But, a few years later he joined the Army Air Corp. He went to Okinawa during the Korean War. Then, when the two services split he stayed in the Air Force.
He went to re-enlist the day my baby sister was born. Being the proud Dad he was, he had to brag about her. Unfortunately, at that time if you had more than one kid, you couldn’t stay in! His recruiting sergeant said if he had just waited a few minutes, and or not had witnesses, he could have re-upped because once he had signed up, it was too late to deny his re-enlistment. Poor Dad. He loved being in the service.
He will never know it, but he had an incredible military funeral, complete with taps, and all the other things they do when you are buried in a military cemetery.
Thanks for allowing me to reminisce a little. I miss him.
Blessings~
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I thank you for telling us about your father, Robbye. You deserve to be very proud of him!! The world lost one of its heroes the day your dad left.
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Thank you so much. He loved our country so much.
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It deserves that type of loyalty once again.
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It surely does. I appreciate all you do to help us get back to there again.
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If only this blog could help unite a country, eh?!
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Would that it could! However, it is a step in the right direction, and you may never know how many have been touched and changed by your wonderfully historical blog.
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What a wonderful thing to say. I’m speechless.
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Thank you, but it is very true!
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Some very interesting facts.😊☕💕
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Thanks.
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Semper Fi! Thanks GP!!
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GP, The country needs your reminder of November 10 as the birthday of the US Marine Corps, 1775-2018, 243 years, & will be right there in 2025 with the 250th birthday as we prepare for the 250th of the USA in 2026 !!!!!!!!!! You are a good steward of our history, GP!!! Thanks! Be well! Phil
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Thank you for your praise and well wishes, Phil. As long as I’m here in 2026 – there’ll be a post, you can count on it!!
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I appreciate this post as a Marine!
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We ALL thank you for your service!!
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Thanks!
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Anytime and ALL the time!
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=)
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I saw two soldiers in my workplace the other day, but unfortunately they left before I had the opportunity to shake their hands. Yes indeed, honour those who serve.
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Thank you for that sentiment. Any day is a good day to shake the hand of a veteran!
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Reblogged this on quirkywritingcorner.
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Thank you for sharing it.
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Reblogged this on John Cowgill's Literature Site.
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Thank you for sharing, John!
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You are welcome as always.
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Thank you from the daughter and wife of Marines.
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My pleasure! I had 2 members in my family as well.
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Happy belated birthday to the Corps!
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It’s never too late to tell them that!!
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A belated Happy Marine Corps Birthday, GP Cox! 🙂
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It’s never too late, Dina. 🙂
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A great birthday message in your link GP. The reference in it to WW1 was very apt as we remember today the end of WW1 in 1918.
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Quite a centennial celebration!
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It’s a wonderful idea to celebrate the Marine Corps birthday. If there are 220,000 personnel involved today, I wonder how many people are eligible to celebrate the event. It must be more than million! And presumably there must be an oldest Marine?
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I’m sure over a million can celebrate. At each post celebration, the oldest Marine in attendance gets the first piece of the cake and he then hands it over to the youngest. It’s a moving gesture of passing the torch.
Thank you for visiting us here today!
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And what a legacy they have established across the centuries!
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Yes they have, Anna. Thank you for honoring them.
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Happy Marine Corps Birthday, GP! I did better than shaking hands; I dedicated a post to my favorite marine https://koolkosherkitchen.wordpress.com/2018/11/11/seasoned-veterans-and-young-chicken-2/
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Terrific! I remembered your older post, especially when I saw the chick and Lori’s as well. Thank you for helping to honor them!
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We all have to thank you and honor you, GP!
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🙂
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Reblogged this on John's Notes and commented:
Do you know a Marine? If you do take this opportunity to thank them for their service.
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Thank you for showing pride in our Marines, John!!
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This very night, one of the best live music venues in Houston — the Redneck Country Club — is holding a combination Marine Birthday Party and Veterans Day celebration. You can see the poster for the event here, on the right side of the page.
The name of the place is pretty much tongue-in-cheek, but it’s got some Texas swagger to it, and it takes the needs of veterans seriously. There always are veterans events there, and they are deeply involved with Camp Hope, which provides services to vets struggling with PTSD. In short, they keep awareness of veterans’ issues in the public eye year round — it’s a great deal.
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What fun!! A ZZ Top Tribute Band as well – wish I could be there!!
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The first time I was at an event where the Marine Corps song was played, a few gentlemen stood up, standing proud. They weren’t in uniform, and that didn’t matter, because once a Marine, always a Marine.
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That’s exactly right!!
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And it was quite moving to see.
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Semper Fi!
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Thank you for coming by, Jennie!!
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A pleasure, GP!
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Certainly they have my respect~!
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I’m very happy to hear THAT!!
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Great reminder – thanks!
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My pleasure!
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Will do!
Happy Birthday Marines! 🙂 We honor and appreciate you all!
HUGS!!! 🙂
PS…We used to live near Camp Pendleton and I greatly enjoyed being friends with the wives. I started a social group for the women and they sure appreciated it.
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The spouses serve too, so you did a wonderful thing for them!
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Marines are like the highest caliber Mafia. Once in, never out. Once a Marine, always a Marine whether a lifer or a single enlistment. Oorah!
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Exactly! Instead of mafia, I think I’d use ‘a family held together by camaraderie’.
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Happy Birthday, Marines.
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Thank you, John. It’s so close to Veterans Day that many overlook this event!
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That is what makes you so special. 😀
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Thank you very much for that, John.
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Totally earned.:-)
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Sir! Yes! Sir! I salute you for your salute to the Marines! 🙂
Semper Fi!
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Thank you.
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Thank you to all who have served and sacrificed.
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I wish everyone felt that way!
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I know. It breaks my heart how people do not respect those who serve and the sacrifices they made for our freedoms.
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I will be honored to applaud many Marines this morning at our Veterans Day parade. Heroes all.
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GOOD FOR YOU, RICHARD!!!
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And a blogger’s tribute is on the way…
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Excellent. RT and FB
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It’s so close to Veterans/Remembrance Day that many overlook this birthday. Thanks!
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Nice to know.
And I did have a go at writing something – thanks for the prod. 🙂
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You have talent!
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Very kind GP, thank you, and for the nudge.
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Sure thing!
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Reblogged this on Truth Troubles.
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Thank you very much!!
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Gotta love the Corps. I really wanted to be a Marine when I was a young man but I knew that I would never get through Basic Training. There were two reasons for that. 1) I could never do pull ups, not more than one or two at the most. 2) I swim like a rock, I can’t even dog paddle without sinking. I went into the Army because I could run for hours at a time, I enjoyed it, I could do hundreds of pushups at a setting and I could do about 60 situps in their two minute drills. Then I went into the Army and got popped by lightning, go figure.—I am going to reblog this article for you Sir.
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What a story!! haha, the universe was trying to tell you something I believe!!
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Thank you for this, GP. I will shake the hand of my son-in-law, who is completing his 20th year as a Marine.
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Give him another shake from me too! I lost my son will he served and my uncle was a career Marine. They are unique individuals!
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I will GP….and I’m so sorry of the loss of your son. Indeed, they are unique individuals!
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My flag is out and waving. Happy Birthday, Marines.
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Hope you have a wonderful Veterans Day as well, Cindy! You walked the walk!
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Happy Birthday to US Marines and heres the link ….. https://history2research.wordpress.com/2018/11/10/featured-blogger-report-u-s-marine-corps-birthday-pacific-paratrooper-acehistorydesk-reports/
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Much appreciated, my friend.
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Happy birthday Marines! Thank you all for your service and sacrifice.
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Excellent, Terri!
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That’s a lot of candles. 🙂
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Hey – does that mean a bigger cake?!!!!
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Happy Birthday Marines!
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Way to go, Rose!!
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I totally forgot. Salute to you son and your uncle. Hugs.
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Thank you, Rose. That is very sweet of you.
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That other commentator was faster than me in saying Semper Fi.
What would the world be without these type of people? An absolute horror.
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It’s never too late to honor people who stick their necks out for us! You are one of them, Charly!
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We did train with them, and having actually see the training and what they went through….. can´t compare it with me for sure. I´m also glad at that last sentece. And ….yep, we did party marty!!
Plus where I was stationed, in shouth east of Spain, the local woman loved to see the ¨Americans¨, quite a novilty for them when the Americans came to town. Just good memories.
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I’m very happy to hear this, thank you, Charly!
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Only in the US can you hear a thank you, not that I want it or need it, It just doesn´t happen in Spain, and for us is normal the not normal would be for a person to say thank you, so I don´t know what to say, I lied, I do know what to say wich is do if you can whatever you can for those American soldiers, at the end to not kid ourselfs they really do the fighting, the rest of the other nations we are just looking most of the time. A great respect I have for those guys, specially since I still keep in touch with a friend who was a Marine, the other one went sideways after his time there.
There are a bunch of charities in the US for veterans.
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Thank you very much for your comment. I am saddened that you and your fellow soldiers do get the recognition you deserve. We have many charities, but even they can not handle the workload. Our troops get deployed so many times, the problems mount up and the VA can not handle it. I believe it will be necessary for the draft to come back.
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That is a good idea, all the hippies now serving and know, retain, discipline and the rest that goes on in the army. Not kidding, I think it would make these generation of ¨snowflakes¨ a bit more tough, and they can then apply it to the civilian world.
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Exactly!!!!
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The Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Virginia is well worth the stop. It is near (but not on) the Quantico Marine Corps Base and one of the finest military museums I have ever visited. When you go through the Korean exhibit, they have you pass through a helicopter body and the temps are in the 50s so you get a faint idea of how cold Frozen Chosin was for the Marines. When you enter the museum, you begin by planting your feet in painted footprints, just as if you were to begin Marine Corps basic training. (Promise that the Museum is much easier to get through.).
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That sounds outstanding! Thank you for letting everyone here in on this gem!!
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My pleasure,. It is right off 95 about an hour south of DC.. Easy on, easy off. Two great places to eat in the Museum. I recommend Tun Tavern (birthplace of the Marines) which is replicated within the Museum. Tons of atmosphere. The other place is a regular cafeteria style place.
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I have a picture of my uncle in front of the replica Tun Tavern in CA after the 200th Marine Birthday.
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Happy Birthday to the few, the proud, the Marines! Semper Fi
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You said it, DC!
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One of my son-in-laws was a Marine. I will send him this!
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Thank you, Katie. It is good that they know how many do care and are appreciative of them!
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Great post, GP! My 26 year-old niece just graduated from Officer Candidates School in Quantico last May.
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Please give her my heartiest Congratulations!! You and your family must be so proud!
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Thank you, GP! Yes were are! Thank you for your service!
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That is wonderful, Jill.
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Thanks, Jennie! We’re so proud of her.
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You are welcome, Jill! 🇺🇸
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Semper Fi!
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Thank you for stopping in, Mickey!!
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I won’t be able to shake the hand of a Marine, but I send you my congratulations and best wishes on their anniversary.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Remembrance Day is tomorrow, any veteran will serve the same (on any day) ! Have a great weekend, Pete! 🙂
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We are planning to go to the war memorial at our local town. There will be a commemoration there.
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That is fantastic!!
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❤
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Thank you, Ian.
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