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Showing posts with label southern fall. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Semper Fi ...
“Some people live their whole lives
and wonder if they made a difference. Marines don’t have that problem.”
~
Ronald Reagan
~ 1911-2004
~ 40th President of
the United States of America
~ 1981-1989
An image from the United States
Marines Graduation Ceremony of Delta Company at Marine Corps Recruit Depot
(MCRD) Parris Island, South Carolina on the morning of October 28, 2016.
Members of the band can be seen reflected in the tuba.
It was a stirring sight to see the
ceremony
graduating Marines who will serve and defend the United States of
America. Semper Fi!
Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris
Island is an 8,095-acre military installation located within Port Royal, South
Carolina, approximately five miles south of Beaufort, the community that is
typically associated with the installation. Parris Island is used for the
training of enlisted Marines. But this slice of paradise is nothing like the
neighboring resorts of Kiawah or Hilton Head Island.
This is Marine Corps Recruit Depot
Parris Island, where Marines are made.
Each year, 20,000 young men and women come to the base to
endure one of the most rigorous and challenging military training programs in
the world. It is a methodical and time-tested 12-week process with one single
purpose — to create a hardened Marine prepared for combat.
Although access is limited, the public is welcome to take a
self-guided tour of the 3,000-acre training center, play golf on the Legends of
Parris Island, watch recruits train in non-restricted areas and visit the
Parris Island Museum.
But it’s the Friday graduations — held 40 of 52 weeks each
year — that draw most visitors to the island. Family and friends of graduating
Marines are extended a special invitation to attend the formal ceremony and
parade and participate in Family Day, held the Thursday before graduation.
Semper Fidelis is a Latin phrase
that means “always faithful” or “always loyal.” It is the motto of the United
States Marine Corps, always in upper case and usually shortened to Semper Fi.
Thursday, May 3, 2018
A Lowcountry Morning ...
“Let
us cross over the river, and rest in the shade of the trees.”
~ Stonewall Jackson
~ 1824-1863
The last words of Thomas Jonathan
“Stonewall” Jackson, who served as a Confederate general (1861-1863) during the
Civil War, and became arguably the best-known Confederate commander after
General Robert E. Lee. Jackson played a prominent role in nearly all military
engagements in the Eastern Theater of the war until his death, and had an
important part in winning many significant battles.
A
Great Blue Heron peers through the marsh in the still beauty of a southern fall
morning in the Lowcountry just before the fog burns off along the Colleton
River in Beaufort County, South Carolina on the first day of November in Dixie.
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