Born as an act of Congress on this date, 236 years ago,
consecrated in sacrifice, steeped in tradition, and tested in battle. From the
Barbary Coast to Belleau Wood to Tarawa and Iwo, to Beirut, Afghanistan and
Iraq, the Marine Corps has fought through adversity emerging victorious from
the rills of blood, sweat and tears of those fallen brothers who gave all for
God, country and Corps. Gen. Lejeune in his 1921 message to the Corps could not
have said it better:
"This high name of distinction and soldierly repute we
who are Marines today have received from those who preceded us in the Corps.
With it we also received from them the eternal spirit which has animated our
Corps from generation to generation and has been the distinguishing mark of the
Marines in every age. So long as that spirit continues to flourish Marines will
be found equal to every emergency in the future as they have been in the past,
and the men of our nation will regard us as worthy successors to the long line
of illustrious men who have served as "Soldiers of the Sea" since the
founding of the Corps."
Semper Fidelis to all Marines past, present and future.
