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(56,582 posts) Mon Nov 10, 2014, 03:26 AM Nov 2014

Happy birthday, United States Marine Corps

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. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Happy birthday and semper fi, guys.

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Happy birthday, United States Marine Corps (Original Post) Recursion Nov 2014 OP

You forgot some of it. Rex Nov 2014 #1

The Marine guards here just did their ball and the adjutant read the quote without the "Thank God" Recursion Nov 2014 #2

Maybe getting more secular. Rex Nov 2014 #3

The youngest Marine at the ceremony was born in... God help me... 1993. Recursion Nov 2014 #4

Never thought I would live to be old enough to say it but Rex Nov 2014 #5

Rex

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1. You forgot some of it.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2014, 03:29 AM

Nov 2014

Thank God for the United States Marine Corps

EDIT - the only reason I remember that is I heard it a million times as a kid.

Recursion

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2. The Marine guards here just did their ball and the adjutant read the quote without the "Thank God"

Reply to Rex (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 10, 2014, 03:30 AM

Nov 2014

So I went with that.

Come to think of it I've never seen the actual attribution anywhere, so for all I know that's apocryphal, but I always liked it.