Bury me next to a Marine, When my time comes to an end, So I can spend eternity Beside my brother and friend. I’ve served beside them for years, And they inspired me every day, They’ve never ask for anything’ So a debt I can never repay. None of them served for money, None for – > Read More
Category: POEMS
Poems
Old Jarhead Poems
I recently read “Old Jarhead Poems – The Heart of a Marine” by Robert A. Hall. In all my years of reading Marine Corps literature, never I have come across such a meaningful and reflective book of Marine poems. One or two I recognized from past editions of Leatherneck Magazine but most of the poems – > Read More
The Man in the Doorway
Written by Marine Michael Ryerson They came in low and hot, close to the trees and dropped their tail in a flare, rocked forward and we raced for the open doorways. This was always the worst for us, we couldn’t hear anything and our backs were turned to the tree line. The best you could – > Read More
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS – REMEMBER OUR VETERANS
Support the kids who stand today.Remember the vets who paved the way.God Bless America and her Warriors!~Cpl. Beddoe, USMC
Recon Team Little Gull
by Tom Shainline When I arrived in country, you were in the bush. I was assigned to your team, call sign “LITTLE GULL”. You were on patrol; I was in your tent. I did not know you. I saw your pictures, your Mother and Father, your wife, your children, your sweetheart, your friends, Miss January. – > Read More
AND ALL THE TIME, I HAVE LOVED THEM
I HAVE GROWN TO LOOK UPON MARINES AS SOMETHING SACRED; I HAVE LAUGHED WITH THEM AND CRIED WITH THEM; CURSED THEM AND PRAYED FOR THEM; SHIVERED AND SWELTERED WITH THEM; SUFFERED WITH THEM; FOUGHT WITH THEM, BLED WITH THEM, AND HELD THEM IN MY ARMS WHILE THEY DIED. I HAVE BURIED THEM. AND ALL THE – > Read More
STRANGE BREED
WE ARE A STRANGE BREED…… WE RESPECT COURAGE, HONOR, COMMITMENT, AND EACH OTHER. WE ARE TOUGH, AND THRIVE ON ADVERSITY AND CHALLENGE. YET TEARS FILL OUR EYES, WHEN WE SEE THE STARS & STRIPES, READ NAMES ON THE WALL, OR HEAR THE MARINE HYMN. WE WOULD RATHER DIE THAN BE UNFAITHFUL. SEMPER FI IS EMBEDDED – > Read More
I am a Marine
I am a Marine, Born in 1775. Through two centuries, I’ve fought the best; And through two centuries, survived. I’ve fought the British twice, And two times I have won. Because of me, there was a setting of the Empire’s sun. I am a Marine. And I’ve fought in many nations, From Mexico’s Chapultepec, to – > Read More
Whisper Semper Fi
He was sitting on a park bench, hunched and looking low. It was hard to imagine how he’d looked so long ago. His beard was long and shaggy now; his sparse hair white as snow but his steel gray eyes were piercing and I turned away to go. He looked lonely and forgotten and maybe – > Read More
A Marine Toast
There once was the love of a beautiful maid And the love of a staunch, true man And the love of a baby, unafraid All have existed since time began But the eternal love The love of all loves Even greater than love for mother Is the infinite, passionate, tender love Of one drunken Marine – > Read More