Still A Marine

by Donald F. McKenna (Author)



What is it about the adventure of becoming and being a Marine that makes it a lifelong experience? This story is fiction, but based on real events and real experiences of a single down-in-the-dirt Marine during the Korean War. It could be about any Marine, in any war.

With a violent war going on around, the men in this story do not see the big war picture with the over-lay maps and arrows. They are, for the most part, men who do not know the philosophies and reasoning of the people who started their war. But what they do have on a daily basis in that war is their fellow Marines with the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor on the dungaree jacket. Trust me, that is enough.

Show a need and identify yourself as a Marine and the area around you will quietly fill with strong people. On the battlefield a Marine will drag back your battered body.

As the years pass, a Marine assimilates and realizes the value of the Marine experience, becoming stronger, better Marines. A Marine is never alone. This, too, is part of the story. Not one Marine in the history of the Corps will tell you that he gave more to the Marine Corps than it gave back to him. Each comes away with a bag full of personal strengths and treasures that they get to keep.

This is for all Marines with a story to tell, and for those who never got the chance.

Still a Marine?