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As a former jarhead (83-86) I would like to wish the Marine Corps a happy 231st birthday today. Semper Fi.

And a big thanks to them for being the best and serving this country!

I guess a fitting day to award the second Medal of Honor from Iraq...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/10/medal.honor/index.html

Jeez, besides yesterday being Veterans Day, I almost forgot what it's called in the UK...

"In the forest, in the snow
All those many years ago
Hailstones and epitaphs
All these body bags and half-mast flags
In the cemetery where they fell
All those many years ago
Now it's just a memory
Eroded by the years.
Forgotten heroes underground
Wrinkled faces gathered round
Hailstones and epitaphs
Roses on a barbwire fence
Winter landscape, never change,
Oh it must have been the same
In the forest, in the snow
All those many years ago
Remembrance Day
All they have is memories
Photographs in silver frames
Remembrance Day
Lost forever in a field,
In a foreign land, many miles away.
In the forest, in the snow
All those many years ago.
Bombs and victims blown sky high
Buried where they lie
A generation underground
Wrinkled faces gathered round
Won't ever bring them back
Never bring them back"