| G/Sgt Hartman: "Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of a brotherhood. From now on, until the day you die. Wherever you are, every Marine is your brother. Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this...Marines die. That's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever and that means YOU live forever."
__________________
'Truth. Duty. Valour.
Blow out you bugles over the rich dead
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old
But dying has made us rarer gifts than gold'
Inscription on the top of the Memorial Arch at RMC Kingston
|