It's that day again....
11-10-17 | 10:01 AM
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Huh, cool! Is there a connection between this event and Veterans' Day?
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11-10-17 | 04:14 PM
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Happy Birthday Devil Dogs!
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11-10-17 | 04:17 PM
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Thank God for the brave, they are why we are free. Happy Birthday USMC! 
11-11-17 | 06:42 AM
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11-11-17 | 07:20 AM
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11-11-17 | 07:27 AM
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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 ( https://calegionpost416.org/ ) is hosting a surfing event, Flying Leathernecks parachute drop, lunch, and other events.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
11-11-17 | 07:49 AM
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11-11-17 | 11:49 AM
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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.
11-11-17 | 11:56 AM
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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.
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11-11-17 | 02:45 PM
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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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11-11-17 | 03:17 PM
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11-14-17 | 05:26 PM
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I think it's the implant.
11-14-17 | 05:32 PM
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