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United States Marine Corps
 
The Few, the Proud
 
“If the Army and the Navy ever look on Heaven’s scenes, they will
find the streets are guarded by United States Marines.”

Another Marine has answered the call to take his post guarding
the golden streets of Heaven.  
 
232nd Marine Corps Birthday - November, 10, 2007
 
Read James T. Conway, Commandant of the US Marine Corps.
 
We have attended the USMC Birthday Ball in a different city
every year. There have been several highlights as this is where I
met JK in 1993 while attending another Ball at the Harvey Hotel
in Dallas, Texas. Later that night, we met again and as they say
the rest is history.
 
In November, 1997 in Washington, DC. We attended the HQMC
Ball in Quantico, Virginia. It was very memorable as we took a
limosine from Washington, DC with several others 20+ year marines
to the Iwo Jima Memorial. It was a very special and we had a toast
to those who served our country honorably.
 
The Marine Corps War Memorial stands as a symbol of this grateful
Nation's esteem for the honored dead of the U.S. Marine Corps.
While the statue depicts one of the most famous incidents of World
War II, the memorial is dedicated to all Marines who have given their
lives in the defense of the United States since 1775.
 
The 32-foot-high figures are shown erecting a 60-foot bronze flagpole
from which a cloth flag flies 24 hours a day in accordance with
Presidential proclamation of June 12, 1961. They occupy the same
positions as in Rosenthal's historic photograph. Hayes is the figure
farthest from the flag staff; Sousley to the right front of Hayes; Strank
on Sousley's left; Bradley in front of Sousley; Gagnon in front of Strank;
and Block closest to the bottom of the flagstaff.
 
The figures, placed on a rock slope, rise about 6 feet from a 10-foot base,
making the memorial 78 feet high overall. The M-l rifle and the carbine
carried by two of the figures are 16 and 12 feet long, respectively. The
canteen would hold 32 quarts of water. Total cost was $850,000.00.
 
The base of the memorial is made of rough Swedish granite. Burnished
in gold on the granite are the names and dates of every principal Marine
Corps engagement since the founding of the Corps, as well as the
inscription: "In honor and in memory of the men of the United States
Marine Corps who have given their lives to their country since November 10,
1775." Also inscribed on the base is the tribute of Fleet Adm. Chester W.
Nimitz to the fighting men on Iwo Jima:
                        "Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue."
 
Erection of the memorial, which was designed by Horace W. Peaslee,
was begun in September 1954. It was officially dedicated by President
Dwight D. Eisenhower on November 10, 1954, the 179th anniversary of the
U.S. Marine Corps.