Veterans Day Presentation_Quotes_FD.REV1

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In 1775, the Marines Corps advertised for “a few good men” to enlist in the Corps for naval duty.

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“They (Marines) have given us our only real fight.” Commanding Officer of the British, War 0f 1812

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"Retreat hell! We just got here!" CAPT LLOYD WILLIAMS, USMC

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"The American Marines are terribly reckless fellows... they would make very good storm troopers.“ Unidentified German officer at Belleau Wood

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“Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.” Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, USA; 12 February 1918

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"Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?" GySgt. DANIEL DALY, USMC

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"Teufelhunde! (Devil Dogs)" GERMAN SOLDIERS, WW1 at BELLEAU WOOD

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“Teufelhunde! (Devil Dogs)” GERMAN SOLDIERS, WW1 at BELLEAU WOOD

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“There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and those who have met them in battle. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion.” Unknown

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“The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down, or that they could be responsible for dimming the bright reputation of their Corps. The Marines simply assumed that they were the world's best fighting men.” - Robert Sherrod, 1943, regarding the battle at Tarawa

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"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

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“Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency: we are winning!” COL DAVID M. SHOUP, USMC

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“The MARINES have landed and have the situation well in hand!” RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

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“Uncommon valor was a common virtue.” Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

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“My only answer as to why the Marines get the toughest jobs is because the average Leatherneck is a much better fighter. He has far more guts, courage, and better officers… These boys out here have a pride in the Marine Corps and will fight to the end no matter what the cost.” 2nd Lt. Richard C. Kennard, Peleliu, World War II

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“Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.” (In reference to the Battle of Iwo Jima) Major General Graves B. Erskine, USMC

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“ This will be the bloodiest fight in Marine Corps history. We'll catch seven kinds of hell on the beaches, and that will be just the beginning. The fighting will be fierce, and the casualties will be awful, but my Marines will take the damned island.” (concerning the upcoming attack on Iwo Jima) Lieutenant General Holland M. " Howlin ' Mad" Smith, USMC

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“The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a MARINE CORPS for the next 500 years.” JAMES FORRESTAL, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY

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“The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.” General Alexander A. Vandergrift, USMC to the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, 5 May 1946

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“The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it.” General Mark Clark, U.S. Army

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“Panic sweeps my men when they are facing the AMERICAN MARINES.” CAPTURED NORTH KOREAN MAJOR

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“If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.” General of the Armies Douglas McArthur in Korea

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" You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth - and the amusing thing about it is that they are." Father Kevin Keaney, 1st MarDiv Chaplain, Korean War

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“All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us…they can’t get away this time.” Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC

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“We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in a different direction!” GEN. OLIVER SMITH, USMC

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“The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of MARINES. LORD, how they could fight!” MAJGEN FRANK LOWE, US.ARMY

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“Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army.” Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War; shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered to not wear their khaki leggings.

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“I have just returned from visiting the MARINES at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!” GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, U.S. ARMY

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"I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence." GEN. JOHNSON, U.S. ARMY

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“ Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.” Chesty Puller, USMC

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“The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!” GEN. PERSHING, U.S. ARMY

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"A ship without MARINES is like a garment without buttons." ADM. DAVID PORTER, USN

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“Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have made a difference to the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.” Ronald Reagan

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“Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.” General A. M. Gray, USMC

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“ People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men Stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” George Orwell

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“Marines know how to use their bayonets. Army bayonets may as well be paper-weights.” Navy Times; November 1994

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“There is no military body in our country of higher efficiency than the Marine Corps. They take great pride in their profession. They never let things slack a bit.” Rear Admiral C.M. Wilslow , U.S. Navy

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“The more MARINES I have around the better I like it!” GEN MARK CLARK, USA

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“We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!” GEN JOHN VESSEY, CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS

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“Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.” Ned Dolan

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“ Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat.” RAdm. "Jay" R. Stark, USN; 10 November 1995

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The US Air Force Chief-of-Staff would never be called -- Airman The Chief-of-Naval Operations would never be called -- Sailor The Commanding General of The US Army would never be called -- Soldier BUT the Commandant of the Marine Corps would be proud to be called a -- United States Marine

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“To ERR is human, to FORGIVE divine. HOWEVER, neither is Marine Corps Policy.”

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“America doesn’t need a Marine Corps. America has a Marine Corps because America wants a Marine Corps, And it wants a Marine Corps because Americans know that when trouble arises there are Marines somewhere who have kept themselves fit and ready to answer the call. And because Americans know that when Marines enter a fight they will turn in a superior performance, not sometimes, but always.” Gen. Brute Krulak U.S.M.C.

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"The man who will go where his colors go without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in a jungle or a mountain range, and who will suffer and die; in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legends are made. His pride is his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face, and his obedience is to his orders. As a legionnaire, he held the gates of civilization for the classical world...today he is called United States Marine." LTCOL FEHRENBACH, USA, In “This Kind of War”

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