On Saturday we got together with some friends and former Marines to celebrate the Birthday of the Marine Corps. It was great to catch up with old friends, meet some new ones, and celebrate a tradition that is well.. totally awesome. Here are some of the highlights of the evening.
The Family
The Fun
Some more fun. These guys are crazy!
The Tradition...
This is Rich reading General LeJeune's birthday message. Read it here if you are interested. After the reading we watched the message from the current Comadant, talk about a tear jerker. I cried through the whole thing.
The Toast.
The Cake.
Traditional cutting of the cake. The cake is being cut with a K-Bar by the oldest Marine in the group.
The Passing of the cake to the youngest Marine in the group.
I have heard the message and seen the cake cutting ceremony many times and it makes me cry every time. It was so great to be part of it again this year. I do have to say that I missed the wonderful uniforms, but the feeling was still there. They are for sure a select group of men and women and we are really lucky to have them.
4 comments:
that is cool that they have a whole ceremony of sorts to commemorate the day. what is a k-bar?
A K-Bar is the combat knife for the Marine Corps
that is so totally cool. i didn't know that there was all that ceremony invovled with a marine b-day party...what with the cake cutting and who does it and gets it and all that....i'm pretty sure that if i would have been there, i would have been moved to tears as well!. happy birthday!
How cool!!!!
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