The
US Marine Corps celebrates its birthday on 10 November. On this date in 1775 John Adams proposed, and the Second Continental Congress approved, the formation of two battalions of Continental Marines. Appropriately,
the first recruiting locale was a tavern, Tun Tavern in Philadelphia. The rest is history.
Fifty
years ago today, I was in my first week of Marine Corps Boot Camp, a Hell I had
been warned about but could never even imagine how horrendously cruel it would
be. (I wrote a bit more about that time HERE.)
It
was the first chapter in the true overall Marine experience, summed up as:
“And
when he gets to Heaven,
To
Saint Peter he will tell:
‘One
more Marine reporting, Sir.
I’ve
served my time in Hell’.”
-Zenwind.
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