It's that day again....
 

242 years ago, recruiting began at a tavern.
It's been along that line ever since.

Happy Birthday, Jarheads!

As always, thank you Marines and all who served!

Huh, cool! Is there a connection between this event and Veterans' Day?

We are here cause you were there!

Our town will be rockin' this weekend.

Happy birthday, jarheads!












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''Tis a great day, happy birthday to all my Marine brothers.

And not long after I’m sure, the first Marine got thrown out of a bar.

Happy Birthday Devil Dogs!

Thank God for the brave, they are why we are free. Happy Birthday USMC! :thumb:

Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, Pa, 10 November 1775.

Semper Fi my brothers and sisters.

Once A Marine, Always a Marine

Bill

Roomate of mine is a Marine Corp veteran. Fought in Mogadishu, Somalia. Great stories and experiences I get to hear.

Happy Birthday to all my brother and sister Marines! :beer:

Two marines in our family.

Always thankful for their service and of course, all of you that answered.

Noticed and appreciated.

I was there at the same time, bad place for sure.

Class of 75-79

To bring this back to bicycling, I think I'll ride my red-white-and-blue made-in-America mountain bike to our downtown area later today. Our local American Legion post ( http://calegionpost416.org/ ) is hosting a surfing event, Flying Leathernecks parachute drop, lunch, and other events.

I don't think so. Veteran's Day was formerly known as Armistice Day, commemorating the end of fighting in WW1. The cease fire took effect on November 11, 1918 at 11 am, Paris time.

Correct. People were quite sure that a conflict of such scale would never occur again, and Armistice Day was to bring that point home. And 25 years later, it was back. Such wars of annihilation have been replaced in a general sense by wars of attrition.

There is no connection with Veteran's Day to the USMC birthday.

The USMC birthday is alive and breathing because somehow, the Marines have integrated their traditions and history so completely into their culture that the psyche of a Marine contains elements of both. We make our promise as much to the ghosts of Marines past as we do to our fellow Marines. The promise made to our country is taken for granted, a given, but our performance is generated by the active burden we carry for each other and those before. Our peer pressure is not just from the present, it's from the past, and that is a unique thing to feel and try to live up to. Almost no Marine I know feels he or she lives up to Marines of the past. What a driving force that is, to know you're never good enough but doing everything you can may get you excused.

Not the best way to put that, but kind of right.

Much closer than you might think Robbie, much closer. The history of the Corps and its men which made the Corps what it is keeps us all striving to live up to the standards set by them. Semper Fidelis is much more than two Latin words to us.

Bill

I respect all branches and the men and women who have served. But its interesting that my friends that were in the army or navy say that they were in the army or use to be in the navy. Marines will always say that they are a Marine, never past tense.

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I think it's the implant.

Somewhere, I have one of those certificates. Oh, to be 21 again.