https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/17/ben-bernanke-being-in-the-military-wont-actually-help-you-in-the-real-world/
Articles and speeches that tell veterans that they wasted their time in the military and implore young Americans to not waste their time joining are like herpes. They pop up, there’s a fuss about them, they recede, and weeks later you stop thinking about them.
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In fact, for the past decade our community has been fighting, not to be treated as heroes, but to be treated as human beings; to be treated as a community who has sacrificed so much in wars that our nation decided to fight.
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Marines have not always had such a formal birthday party. Actually before 1921 not all Marines celebrated the Marine Corps birthday. The Marine Corps birthday started its climb up the ladder of important days when General John A. Lejeune issued Marine Corps Order No. 47.
