{"id":242,"date":"2018-11-10T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2018\/11\/10\/happy-243rd-birthday-usmc\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:29:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:29:33","slug":"happy-243rd-birthday-usmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Happy 243rd Birthday, USMC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6696,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\\\/news\\\/your-marine-corps\\\/2018\\\/09\\\/25\\\/50-years-later-marine-gunny-to-be-awarded-the-medal-of-honor-for-hue-city-heroics&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\\\/news\\\/your-marine-corps\\\/2018\\\/09\\\/25\\\/50-years-later-marine-gunny-to-be-awarded-the-medal-of-honor-for-hue-city-heroics\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6697,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/amzn.to\\\/2DyjB6M&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/Hue-1968-Turning-American-Vietnam\\\/dp\\\/0802127002\\\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1541890085&amp;sr=8-1&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=nolaonguanmo-20&amp;linkId=4b5b7e07a4c4263dcc5b387fb3cb0a41&amp;language=en_US&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6698,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/amzn.to\\\/2JSocAV&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/Hue-1968-Turning-American-Vietnam\\\/dp\\\/0802127908\\\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1541890085&amp;sr=8-1&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=nolaonguanmo-20&amp;linkId=185d1b5ab177d53c5b79794bcf1f9eff&amp;language=en_US&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nToday marks the 243rd birthday of the founding of the United States Marine Corps at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia. Even though I come from an Army family, I recognize the role that the Marines have played in protecting our country here and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the Commandant of the Marine Corp&#8217;s birthday message. So to all my friends, new and old, who served wearing the globe and anchor, Semper Fi!<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AWDdC-D68Uo\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mentioned in the Commandant&#8217;s message is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/09\/25\/50-years-later-marine-gunny-to-be-awarded-the-medal-of-honor-for-hue-city-heroics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gunny Sgt. John Canley<\/a> who was recently awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery and leadership during the Battle of Hue&#8217;. If you&#8217;d like to know more about his actions as well as the actions of all the Marines who fought to retake Hue&#8217;, I&#8217;d urge you to read Mark Bowden&#8217;s book <i>Hue&#8217; 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam<\/i>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2DyjB6M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hardback is available on Amazon<\/a> at deep discount ($8.90 as of this posting) which is actually cheaper than the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2JSocAV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paperback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 243rd birthday of the founding of the United States Marine Corps at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[618,619,620,621,622],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthday","tag-gunny-sgt-john-canley","tag-tun-tavern","tag-us-marine-corps","tag-usmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11615,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/11615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}