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Colors to be rededicated in all colors .

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Center ,

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I came to Anglican , oh , when they

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were in Hawaii and that was in

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1965 . Then from there in

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September of 1966 50 of us

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from Anglican . So left to join the

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Korean Marines in Vietnam . I actually

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came to the Anglican uh from the first

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Marine Division Uh in probably June of

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1990 . I was at Anglican Oh , probably

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for two weeks and I went and jumped

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into the joint readiness training

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program with the 82nd and did not

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finish that exercise . We got deployed

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the desert shield from there . I've

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been the CEO of English over the last

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year and a half and I was formally in

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English from 2007 to 10 . I was a faith

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leader . 66 and seven . Originally , uh

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we deployed to Iraq in 2008 , came back

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in , deployed to Afghanistan 2009 and

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10 . So on March 2nd , 2023 was the

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72nd anniversary . I was very honored

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to be able to put on the Vietnam

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streamer seeing that that was my war

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and uh it was a very impressive

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ceremony . I was just very honored to

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be here . It's tight and now you see it

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here , it's a team . It's a family that

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you always report of . So still the guy

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was my driver . Bodyguard shows up

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because he thinks I may need a driver .

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It's been a lot and then , um , the

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ability to tie the people who created a

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legacy of the footprints in which we

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stand by the shoulders and just

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standing there with them to the marines

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who are currently doing the job . So I

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had a chance to hopefully let them see

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a little bit of themselves and the new

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marines and for the new marines to see ,

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we come from a long story line of war

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fighters of fire supporters of

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communicators and they should take

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their job seriously because they never

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know when the calls we get . It's a

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tradition in our core that keeps it

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going . We learn from the past , but we

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sure grow much stronger in the future .

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You say once a marine , always a marine .

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But above that , once an anglican

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always thought .