Happy 233rd birthday to the Marine Corps

[Recursion]

[WCGreen]

1. Happy birthday Jar Heads....

[IndianaJones]

2. RIP Col. John W. Ripley.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/washington/04ripley.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[Recursion]

3. And RIP General Barrow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Barrow

[hughee99]

5. RIP Maj. General Smedley Butler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

(From the Wiki page)
In his 1935 book, War Is a Racket, Butler presented an exposé and trenchant condemnation of the profit motive behind warfare. His views on the subject are well summarized in the following passage from a 1935 issue of "the non-Marxist, socialist" magazine, Common Sense – one of Butler's most widely quoted statements:

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

[Ron Green]

6. $emper Finance.

[old mark]

15. RIP "Chesty" Puller, former Comandant, legend of Guadalcanal.

mark

[aquart]

4. Don't tread on me!

[StreetKnowledge]

7. Keep it up guys.

America is proud of you and your brothers, even if we wanna kick the nuts of the guys who give you your orders. :patriot:

[silverojo]

9. Way to go, keep voting for McCain/Palin and every other Repuke!

Dems are a small segment of the military. So pardon me if I don't want to salute people who think Obama's a Marxist, and that liberals hate America.

This ain't your father's military (which was actually honorable). Sad how things have changed for the worse. :(

[Recursion]

12. Umm... military personnel donated something like 2 to 1 to Obama over McCain

Just sayin...

[petronius]

8. Happy Birthday, Marines! I stopped by to give you a big chocolate cake,

but you weren't home, so I ate it. (Sorry!)

[magellan]

10. A big A-ROO-GAH for my dad

He got a Purple Heart at Chosin. Yes, he survived. Unless my mom was telling the truth about me being hatched.

Q: Why don't Marines eat pickles?
A: Because they can't get their heads in the jars!

Happy birthday, Marine Corps! From a former squidette. :patriot:

[Trajan]

11. OohRah Marine !

THANK YOU for your service ....

Keep ALL innocents safe .... Whoever they may be ....

[ForrestGump]

13. Semper fi!

Hopefully there'll be no politicians, any time soon, needlessly further sacrificing our Marines to spurious causes. The Marine Corps, and the country, deserve vastly better.

[Cobalt-60]

14. Hand Salute!

A happy birthday to the Marines!

[Vickers]

16. Happy b-day, Jy-reens!

:P

My youngest brother was is a Marine.

[Bunny]

17. Semper Fi!

A big happy birthday to all you jarheads, leathernecks and gyreens!

My kids' father was USMC, did a tour in Nam, got a Purple Heart, and calls it his 'big camping trip'.

[jmg257]

18. Congrats, Pop! Semper Fi!

[DS1]

19. Get some!