Happy 238th Birthday Marines here and everywhere that you are stationed at in the world.

May the Marines always stay true to the US Constitution.

There is another quote you should add from a well deserving Marine, “All it takes is all you’ve got.” Ssgt Christopher Antonik.

THE HEALING*

Long ago, in the Age of Aquarius, there was a war. A war which divided
father against son, brother against brother, friend against friend. A
war which left mothers, wives, sweethearts in tears and questions in
their hearts. Some of those brothers, friends fathers and sons came
home whole, others missing limbs, and those who came home in a gray
coffin, and still others who are still missing.

Time has passed, as time does, and the wounds from that war has slowly
healed not completely though. The people still remember the hurt, the
anger, the grief, and the terror of that war. The nation had tried to
forget the war because that war was never won and the nation was
disgraced by that war. The warriors who came home faced and felted
empathy, ridicule, hopelessness, nightmares, fear and terror.

These dishearten warriors tried to distanced themselves from that war,
but they could not. The war drew them like a moth to a flame. So with
courage and faith these grunts, flyers, radiomen, medic’s, docs,
nurses, cap’t's, swabjocks, jarheads, doggies, chopper jocks, all kinds
of rank and file, hippies, dissenters, draftdodgers, went to the people
of that nation seeking to heal those wounds caused by the war.

Without the capital of the capitol, but with clout of the powers to be
behind the seats of government, these warriors made their dream and the
nation’s come true in the fall of ’82. Together with courage and
compromise, the “WALL” is a reality today.
The fathers, mothers, sweethearts, brothers, sisters, friends, foes,
strangers came to see, touch, cry, rejoice when they saw or did not see
a name on the the “WALL”. Friends were made and reunited wounds healed,
goodbyes were said, unspoken words were spoken, and things of love were
left.

The hippies and hawks became one, the glorifiers and the demeanors are
silenced by the “Blackness Of The Wall”.

No Shame No Glory

Just a celebration of heroes

Respectfully Submitted
Ben Weihrich, Jr.
USMC ’69-’75
Proud Grad of “Saigon U”

Thank you.

Now that was a “real compliment” comming from a “real warrior”, Colonel Allen West, United States Army, (retired). As a “Old Corps Marine”, and retired law enforcement investigator, I want to say “Thank you Sir”, for your long and distinguished military service to this country, and also, for your continued fearless leadership in the political arena of civilian life! God bless you and your “continued mission” of serving this great country and those who also love it! “Semper Fi” Colonel West!