The Nations Tavern: Interesting Graduation UHHRaHHH!!!!!!!!!!

From the Great Chesty

"Our country wont go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!"

"Paper work will ruin any military force"

"You don't hurt'em if you don't hit 'em"

Chesty on the other forces:

When an Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat, Chesty turned to his tank commander, gave him the Army position and orderd: "If they start to pull back from that line, even one foot, I want you to open fire on them" Turning back to the captain he replied "does that answer your question? We are here to fight." At Koto-ri Korea

"The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war"

In a letter to his wife while in Korea

When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22 enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty ratio on and enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the process.

An enemy division is 16500+men while a Marine Division is 12500 men.

When a Journalist asked him about being surrounded by 22 enemy divisions. Chesty replied.

"They are a damn site better than the U.S. Army, at least we know they will be there in the morning"

"They are in front of us , behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away now!"

"there are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go"

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Interesting Graduation UHHRaHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I would like to tell you about my son who became a Marine this year. It has been his dream since he was very young to be a Marine. Last summer he found out he could become a Marine before he actually graduated high school. He had a enough credits to finish school in December. On January 8, he left for MCRD. He was home in time for his High school graduation. He wanted to graduate in his Marine uniform but the principal told him he had to wear his cap and gown.

This upset him very much because he was so proud to be a Marine. I told him to wear his uniform under the cap and gown and before he received his diploma he should take off the cap and gown. He did just that. I was so PROUD of him. You should have heard the applause he got for that. It was a most awesome day for me. My son had already achieved a couple of his dreams by the time he graduated from high school.

Semper Fi
Dorothy Hampton
Proud mother of a Marine