Quotes with marines

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• From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.

  Bill Flores
  American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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• 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
  American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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• 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.

  Bud Grant
  American football coach and player (1927 - )
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• We have a wretched motley crew, in the fleet; the marines the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt water.

  Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5

  Benedict Arnold
  American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• midshipmen
• serviceman
• families
• uprising
• alcatraz
• wretched

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