Category Archive: USMC

Nov
10
2008

Happy 233rd Birthday, USMC!

My grandfather, whom I never knew, fought in both World Wars wearing the uniform of the United States Marine Corps.  In World War I, he drove a tank under Patton. During World War II, he was a part of the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.  After the war, he returned to D.C …

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