And when he gets to heaven,
To Saint Peter he will tell:
“Another Marine reporting, sir.
I’ve served my time in hell”.
—PFC James A. Donohue, USMC, 1^st Marine Division

Between election year politics and Olympics frenzy, we are likely to miss anniversary of an important anniversary: seventy years ago, on August  7, 1942, United States Marines landed on an obscure South Pacific island called Guadalcanal.

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