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Comment by Ricardo Jacques on April 29, 2012 at 12:45pm

Another that's not a famous quote but it does justice to the World War II generation.

And so it goes
From man to man
Each doing best he can.
The sum and total
Of it all,
Is some men live
And some fall.
And some return
To tell us all!
- Cpl Robert L. Cook USMC
The last lines of his poem;
Tarawa

In the poem Tarawa, one can see some Marines.

Walking in the water towards a distant shore under-fire.

Cpl. Robert L. Cook is a poet that his pen never quits.

He has written over 300 plus poems.

I have a signed copy of one of his books;

POEMS BY A MARINE.

His poems cover about everything we wore or did in the Corps.

Comment by Ricardo Jacques on April 29, 2012 at 12:39pm

Not a famous quote, but words that describes our service in Vietnam.

"We fought for democracy and for a dream.
That was obtainable by the people of Vietnam.
We felt honored to have served our country,
To have been given the opportunity in life.
To be more than a witness to history.

If we failed,
It was not because we did not do our duty,
It was because others entrusted,
With higher responsibilities,
Failed to do theirs."
- R. M. 'Cook' Barela USMC
India Company 3rd Battalion 7th Marines

'Cook - Cookie' was a friend, whom I met on the internet.

We had both been in Vietnam at the same time in 1967.

But not in the same unit and we were no more than 10 miles apart.

Comment by Claudia Bartow on April 25, 2012 at 4:36pm

Love your quotes, guys.  I especially loved the Eleanor Roosevelt one- I actually just came across that the other day myself.

Comment by John Derek Rigby on April 24, 2012 at 10:24am

A couple that spring to mind, the first by Admiral Yamamoto following the attack on Pearl Harbor " I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant". how true that was. 

And

Though I don't think this will be published anytime soon. When asked by a reporter what he thought about the French refusing to support the US and it's allies going into Iraq Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf replied " Going to war without the French is like going hunting and realising that you have left your pianoaccordian at home!"

Comment by Ricardo Jacques on April 23, 2012 at 1:04pm

"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!"

Eleanor Roosevelt

Comment by Ricardo Jacques on April 23, 2012 at 1:00pm

"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

Comment by Ricardo Jacques on April 23, 2012 at 12:59pm

"I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company.  We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us.  I have no one on my left and only a few on my right.  I will hold."  

1stLt. Clifton B. Cates, USMC; in Belleau Wood, 19 July 1918

Comment by Ricardo Jacques on April 23, 2012 at 12:56pm

When advised to withdraw by a French officer at the defensive line.

Just north of the village of Lucy-le-Bocage on June 1, 1918.

Captain Lloyd W. Williams United Marine Corps.  

Is said to have replied: 

"Retreat Hell! we just got here"

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