Subject: Memorial Day Views and Viewpoints
"I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We
need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept
by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left
and only a few on my right. I will hold." --1st. Lt. Clifton B. Cates, Navy
Cross, 2 Distinguished Service Crosses, (later Commandant), USMC, July 19,
1918 commanding 96 Company, 6th Marines, near the French town of Soissons.
"Casualties: many, Percentage of dead: not known, Combat efficiency: we are winning." --Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC, MOH, (later Commandant) Tarawa, 21
November 1943.
"Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share."
--Captain J.E. "Ned" Dolan, USMC (Ret.) Platoon Leader E/27, Korean War
"We fight not for glory, nor for riches, nor for honour, but only and alone for
Freedom, which no good man lays down but with his life." --Declaration of
Arbroath, Scotland, 1320
"In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the
Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to
them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then
Athens ceased to be free." --Edward Gibbon |
