Domo arrigato, NFO-san. I might have a drink or 12. I’ll raise one to you.
Don- Semper Fi! 🙂
Some of my most challenging, stubborn, cantankerous patients are old marines. I look forward to every visit with them, even if I do have to nag at them sometimes. They have great stories.
Happy Birthday Marines! May you have another 241.
Suz
(The only ones worse than the marines are those navy guys.:)
Stories, indeed.
Today is the 241st birthday of the US Marine Corps. Congratulations to them, and in particular to my friends who are current or former Marines.
In their honor, here’s one of the more famous (and true) Marine birthday reminiscences.
On the occasion of the 1978 Marine Corps Birthday Ball at Camp LeJeune, and in the presence of several thousand Marines and their ladies, General Louis H. Wilson Jr., then Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, rose to deliver his address to the troops.
He approached the rostrum, nodded to the Base and Division Commanders and proceeded to explain to the captive masses that he would be short on words that night. He turned to his bride, took a glass, and amid dead silence he offered this toast, then promptly sat down.
LOVE
The wonderful love of a beautiful maid,
the love of a staunch true man,
the love of a baby, unafraid,
have existed since time began.
But the greatest of loves,
the quintessence of loves,
even greater than that of a mother,
is the tender, passionate, infinite love
of one drunken Marine for another.
There were a few seconds of silence… and then the room exploded. It was ten minutes or more before order was restored.
RHT- Yep, that story is STILL told around Quantico and DC…
Euripides- Amen!
Heath- LOL, the older you get, the faster the years go by… Thanks!
Hey, I stayed on LeJeune for a while.
Does that count?
Happy Birthday Gyrenes.
Yes, Happy Birthday to the Marine Corps. Several of us actually wished our only marine at work happy birthday by singing the Marine Corps Hymn to him, of course I had to write it out for those Army guys. See, I do remember things from my CPO initiation.
Domo arrigato, NFO-san. I might have a drink or 12. I’ll raise one to you.
Don- Semper Fi! 🙂
Some of my most challenging, stubborn, cantankerous patients are old marines. I look forward to every visit with them, even if I do have to nag at them sometimes. They have great stories.
Happy Birthday Marines! May you have another 241.
Suz
(The only ones worse than the marines are those navy guys.:)
Stories, indeed.
Today is the 241st birthday of the US Marine Corps. Congratulations to them, and in particular to my friends who are current or former Marines.
In their honor, here’s one of the more famous (and true) Marine birthday reminiscences.
On the occasion of the 1978 Marine Corps Birthday Ball at Camp LeJeune, and in the presence of several thousand Marines and their ladies, General Louis H. Wilson Jr., then Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, rose to deliver his address to the troops.
He approached the rostrum, nodded to the Base and Division Commanders and proceeded to explain to the captive masses that he would be short on words that night. He turned to his bride, took a glass, and amid dead silence he offered this toast, then promptly sat down.
LOVE
The wonderful love of a beautiful maid,
the love of a staunch true man,
the love of a baby, unafraid,
have existed since time began.
But the greatest of loves,
the quintessence of loves,
even greater than that of a mother,
is the tender, passionate, infinite love
of one drunken Marine for another.
There were a few seconds of silence… and then the room exploded. It was ten minutes or more before order was restored.
From here—
http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2016/11/congratulations-to-my-marine-friends.html
A most happy and blessed birthday to our Marines.
Damm, seems like we just celebrated 240…
Oorah gents, happy birthday!
And here’s one to you, Jim.
Suz- ;-P
RHT- Yep, that story is STILL told around Quantico and DC…
Euripides- Amen!
Heath- LOL, the older you get, the faster the years go by… Thanks!
Hey, I stayed on LeJeune for a while.
Does that count?
Happy Birthday Gyrenes.
Yes, Happy Birthday to the Marine Corps. Several of us actually wished our only marine at work happy birthday by singing the Marine Corps Hymn to him, of course I had to write it out for those Army guys. See, I do remember things from my CPO initiation.
Semper Fi, and thank you all for your service!