Members of First Battalion, 9th Marines Regiment, listen intently as their Regiment Commander, Colonel Edward F. Janowritz, congratulates them on a successful mission before their departure to Okinawa in July 1959. The ceremony was attended by Assistant Secretary of the Navy John Warner, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. This photograph was taken during the Vietnam War.

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