🚨🇺🇸 Today at Modern Day Marine, Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao spoke about his first love:
“My first love is the Marine Corps:
Because it was the Marine Corps that took me out of Vietnam in 1975. It was the Marine Corps that met me in Guam, and it was the Marine Corps again at Camp Pendleton at the second refugee camp.
In 1979, when the Shah of Iran was overthrown and I was living in West Africa, they brought us into the embassies—and those Marines who stood watch over us that night said, ‘Nothing is going to hurt you tonight—not on my watch.’
So I wanted to be like those Marines. I wanted to be like those heroes when I grew up.”
Sir, I promise you this—today’s Marines will make you fall in love all over again. Oorah.
I See His Blood upon the Rose
I see his blood upon the rose
And in the stars the glory of his eyes,
His body gleams amid eternal snows,
His tears fall from the skies.
I see his face in every flower;
The thunder and the singing of the birds
Are but his voice—and carven by his power
Rocks are his written words.
All pathways by his feet are worn,
His strong heart stirs the ever-beating sea,
His crown of thorns is twined with every thorn,
His cross is every tree.
~Joseph Mary Plunkett
(Born in Dublin in1887, Plunkett was one of the signers of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and was imprisoned by the English army. He was executed in 1916 at 28 years old for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising. Shortly before his execution on May 4, he married his fiancée, Grace Gifford, in the jail’s chapel.)
"Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found.
It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."
-J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit