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Find out who you are and do it on purpose. And do it with purpose. ~ Dolly Parton

Lore of the Corps - The Battle of Bladensburg

On this day in 1814, 103 Marines and "flotillamen" from the Washington Navy Yard held off a numerically superior British force long enough to help save the Declaration of Independence.

"It was an unmitigated military disaster, save for a small band of US Marines whose desperate defense of the nation's capital allowed for the Declaration of Independence - and the President - to be whisked away to safety."  Claire Barret, Military Times.

Annus Mirabilis

 

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Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. ~ Terry Pratchett

Vintage Holidays - Flag Day

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy

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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother...
Amd gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us...~ Wm Shakespeare

Memorial Day

 

National Museum of the Marine Corps FB page

There is a profound, sickening duality in being thanked for your service by people who would be horrified if they actually saw what that service required. ~ Jarrod Toothman

The rest of the essay is here.  If you do nothing else today, read it.  

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Never presume to measure another's grief

When death has struck, saying, "they did not care."

Death has a pride that's tall beyond belief

And secret rooms no one can ever share. ~ Clara Hyde

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He who does not punish evil commands it to be done. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

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Respect for the rights of others means peace. ~ Benito Juarez

Happy Thomas Jefferson Day

 

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual." 

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Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question:  Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly? ~ Sandra Day O'Connor

To The Guillotine!

 There were quite a few of these to be seen this afternoon.

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National Day of Protest

 

Saturday, March 28th.  Find a local event and get your 🫏 out there.

Just Do It

 

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Any act of love, however - no matter how small - lessens anxiety's grip, gives us a taste of tomorrow, and eases the yoke of our fears.  Love, unlike virtue, is not its own reward.  The reward of love is peace of mind, and peace of mind is the end of man's desiring. ~ Harper Lee

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"Some Public Health Service officers deployed in detention centers suffer 'moral distress'..."

I will do no harm or injustice to them...Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. 

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain for ever reputation among all for my life and for my art; but if I break it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me. ~ Hippocrates

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photo from Atlantic magazine

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. ~ Adam Serwer