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Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

People Problem Some People Wonder

Jimmy Carter used to walk off the airplane carrying his own luggage. Do you remember that? I don't want my president carrying - I want the freaking Marines to be carrying his luggage, and they want to carry his luggage.

Walk You Remember Airplane

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

Douglas MacArthur

World Fighting Organization Just

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

Bruce Springsteen

Time Name Drummer Always

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Your Butt Get Join

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

Fear Fight Long Purpose

I've had some 'riotous excursions of the human spirit' alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it's time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way - they earned their stripes in combat.

Time Way Spirit Leave

Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.

Know Defeat How Word

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase... Rather, it's displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

Love Tears Sweat Liberty

The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.

Own Now Afghanistan Piece

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Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

Fitness Perfect Test Got

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

Work Me Discipline Job

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

Change Moving On You Name

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

You Vietnam Trade Any

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

Me Safety Who Responsible

In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.

Me World Everything Like

I joined the Marines, passed Special Forces selection, and became a young leader in the military.

Leader Special Young Military

'Battle: Los Angeles' - I've got to say this was easily one of the most physically trying things that I've ever done in my life because I play a Marine in the film, and they had us training with real live Marines for, like, three weeks. It gave me a whole new respect for just the armed forces, period.

Life Me Respect My Life

Aristotle might not recognize it, or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?

Democracy You Others Who

As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that Friday afternoon. Would they make it back okay? And what about all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who were also putting their lives on the line every day?

Tammy Duckworth

Day Me Every Day Soldiers

I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.

You School High School Doing

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

Life Time My Life Parents

There was a prison uprising at Alcatraz, and I drove the Marines over there in a landing craft to quell the riot. I am the only serviceman I know with an American Theatre ribbon.

I Am Prison Theatre Know

The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines.

Doing Nothing Frame Policy

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

Army New Meet Security

My father was an athlete, a great athlete, fought in the Marines in World War I. He was all sports and activity. My mother was all academics. I still have the complete works of Shakespeare that she had.

War Sports Mother Father

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