Marine Corps League - River Valley Detachment #1248

River Valley Detachment #1248
Fort Smith, Arkansas

"At Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue." — Admiral Chester Nimitz, U.S. Navy

"It cannot be inherited nor can it ever be purchased. You and no one alive can buy it for any price. It is impossible to rent and it cannot be lent. You alone and our own have earned it with your sweat, blood and lives. You own it forever — the title: United States Marine."

"Civilians cannot and will not understand us because they are not one of us. The Corps — we love it, live it and shall die for it. If you have never been in it, you shall never understand it."

"The difficult we accomplish with ease. The impossible takes a while."

"You earned the title 'Marine' upon graduation from recruit training. It wasn't willed to you, it isn't a gift. It is not a government subsidy. Few can claim the title, no one may take it away. It is yours forever." — Tom Bartlett, Leatherneck Magazine

"And they live tradition; the United States Marine bears upon his shoulders the nation's past and the nation's hope for the future." — Hanson W. Baldwin

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." — President Ronald Reagan, 1985

"Adapt. Improvise. Overcome."

"All men are created equal, then some become Marines."

"The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of Marines. Lord, how they could fight." — Major General Frank E. Lowe, U.S. Army

"Once a MARINE, always a MARINE."

"I proudly served my country in a noble cause. I never faltered. I made personal sacrifices to keep my nation free. Brave Marines of the past are proud of me. I am one of the few and the proud. I am a Marine."

"I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world." — General Douglas MacArthur, U.S. Army

"Through this hatch will pass the finest, most respected fighting man in the world: A United States Marine."

"Come on you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" — Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly

"Not as lean, not as mean, but still a Marine."

"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps." — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1945

"The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand." — Richard Harding Davis

"You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth — and the amusing thing about it is, they are." — Father Kevin Keany, 1^st Marine Division Chaplain, Korean War