Sixty five years ago today I celebrated my most memorable birthday. It was my eighteenth and I was on a little island about ten miles long and five miles wide in the Pacific. The guys in my platoon helped make it memorable with a gift of a mud pie in my face to help me celebrate.
The experience made me grateful to get back to this great land we live in and instilled an attitude of thanksgiving in me that remains to this day. And to any of you old Jarheads who may still be alive.... Semper Fi!
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