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"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."

"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."
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"When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war."

"You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did."

"Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control."

"I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running."

"The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after."

"Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam."

"I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot."
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