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Tomorrow, November 10, is the 232nd birthday of the US Marine Corps. The Marines can be a mystery to those of us who weren’t raised in the military culture. We know from our history books that they are an elite group, something different from other soldiers. But what really makes them different? In celebration of the Marines, HUMAN EVENTS asked a few Marines to describe the difference in their own words.

In celebration of the Marines, HUMAN EVENTS asked a few Marines to describe the difference in their own words.

I felt proud just speaking with Colonel H.C. “Barney” Barnum, Jr., a retired Marine, now Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Col. Barnum received the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor in combat in Vietnam. He sounded just as I suspected an older Marine would -- direct, convinced and matter of fact.

“Once a Marine always a Marine,” he said. “You earn the title…you join the Army you join the Air Force, you join the Navy -- but you earn the title of a United States Marine.”

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 by Sig Christenson
Military Reporters & Editors

WASHINGTON - Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who led U.S. ground troops in the first critical year of Iraq's occupation, accused politicians of putting their own personal ambitions ahead of the needs of their troops, and predicted that the "nightmare" of a war without end looms unless leaders here make a dramatic U-turn.

"A Japanese proverb says, 'Action without vision is a nightmare. There is no question that America is living a nightmare with no end in sight," Sanchez, 56, of San Antonio, said Friday at the 6th annual Military Reporters & Editors conference.

"Since 2003, the politics of war have been characterized by partisanship as the Republican and Democratic parties struggled for power in Washington. Efforts to date have been corrupted by partisan politics that have prevented us from devising effective, executable, supportable solutions."

The high-profile attacks — generally large bombs hitting markets, mosques or other "soft" targets that produce mass casualties — have dropped to about 70 in July from a high during the past year of about 130 in March, according to the Multi-National Force — Iraq.

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Ever since Connecticut Democrats refused to back him for a fourth term in Congress, Joe Lieberman has been burnishing his independent credentials in the narrowly divided Senate while becoming increasingly critical of the Democratic Party on the war in Iraq.

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