The Independent . ey were thefirst to plant the Stars and Stripes onforeign soil, and they are aching todayto maintain their reputation by beingchosen the first to land in Europe andgo into action somewhere in they will have their wish, forno arm of Uncle Sams various servicesis better equipt to enter the Great Waron short notice or has seen more actualfighting, either on land or on sea. Even in so-called peace times theUnited States Marine is nearly alwaysin some sort of fray. Tho our nationA certain amount of the haziness has not declared a war for nineteendark nautical blue, b
The Independent . ey were thefirst to plant the Stars and Stripes onforeign soil, and they are aching todayto maintain their reputation by beingchosen the first to land in Europe andgo into action somewhere in they will have their wish, forno arm of Uncle Sams various servicesis better equipt to enter the Great Waron short notice or has seen more actualfighting, either on land or on sea. Even in so-called peace times theUnited States Marine is nearly alwaysin some sort of fray. Tho our nationA certain amount of the haziness has not declared a war for nineteendark nautical blue, but if he wears that exists in the mind of the general years, the Marine Corps has been inchevrons on it they are yellow, like a public about the nature of the mar- many a battle meanwhile. The gallan-cavalrymans. As an example of cos- ine may arise from the fact that the try of our Marines at Peking in themopolitanism, his cap device bears a word suggests sailor. Now, undenia- Boxer uprising, and at Vera Cruz, and. BILLY BLUE, UNITED STATES MARINE relief map of half ofthe globe. An eagle withoutspread wings sur-mounts the globe anda fouled anchor showsin the background. Totell a marine at aglance (whatever hisuniform or his rank)look on the front ofthe hat or the capfor that globe. It isthe distinguishing em-blem of a marinethe world over. GreatBritain is the onlyother power that has,in our sense of theword, a real marinecorps; and the cap de-vice of the British ma-rine also has a globe inthe center of the design.
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