Lee Merritt MD: FreedomDoc1

The USMC has celebrated its birthday for hundreds of years through wars and peace. The celebration was sometimes two guys in a dugout sharing rations. Cancelling a nations history is one more step to cancelling any reason to defend a nation. We are supposed to deny the reason America has been a beacon of hope to the world. We have been convinced that honoring culture and national identity, and protecting one's nation is inherently wrong. I am very sorry to see this happen and it is hard to believe Marine "leadership" have forgotten the point of all this. I went to Navy Diving School in Groton Connecticut with a bunch of Recon Marines. Sgt. John Wayne Powers used to help me through PT when I was lagging. Years later, he gave his life to save some fellow Marines. I think of him still 45 years later. He didn't join the USMC for money nor a scholarship but to serve his country and his fellow man. He was proud to be an American and upheld the greatest Marine Corps tradition and warrior ethic. In the great awakening we see how much this nation has inappropriately used such fine young men. And now, in plain site, they have shamelessly and formally decided not even to honor their memory--on the one day dedicated to do so. General John A. Lejeune is turning in his grave. Here is his famous directive:

Title: Marine Corps Birthday Message
Category: Marine Corps Order No. 47 (Series 1921)
Author/Presenter: Major General John A Lejeune, USMC Commandant of the Marine Corps
Date: 1 November 1921
759. The following will be read to the command on the 10th of November, 1921, and hereafter on the 10th of November of every year. Should the order not be received by the 10th of November, 1921, it will be read upon receipt.
(1) On November 10, 1775, a Corps of Marines was created by a resolution of Continental Congress. Since that date many thousand men have borne the name "Marine". In memory of them it is fitting that we who are Marines should commemorate the birthday of our corps by calling to mind the glories of its long and illustrious history.
(2) The record of our corps is one which will bear comparison with that of the most famous military organizations in the world's history. During 90 of the 146 years of its existence the Marine Corps has been in action against the Nation's foes. From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every corner of the seven seas, that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.
(3) In every battle and skirmish since the birth of our corps, Marines have acquitted themselves with the greatest distinction, winning new honors on each occasion until the term "Marine" has come to signify all that is highest in military efficiency and soldierly virtue.
(4) This high name of distinction and soldierly repute we who are Marines today have received from those who preceded us in the corps. With it we have also received from them the eternal spirit which has animated our corps from generation to generation and has been the distinguishing mark of the Marines in every age. So long as that spirit continues to flourish Marines will be found equal to every emergency in the future as they have been in the past, and the men of our Nation will regard us as worthy successors to the long line of illustrious men who have served as "Soldiers of the Sea" since the founding of the Corps.
John A. Lejeune,
Major General Commandant

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