Sentinel2656

" with drilled shoulders and a bone-deep sunburn, and a tolerant scorn of nearly everything on earth. Their speech was flavored with navy words...Rifles were high and holy things to them and they knew the five-inch broadside guns. They were the Leathernecks, the Old Timers...the old breed of American regulars, regarding their service at home and war as occupation; and they transmitted their temper and character to the high-hearted volunteer mass which filled the ranks of the Marine Brigade."