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Lakeline Oaks Retirement Community
Cedar Park, Texas
November 10, 2015
Sometime in October, Lakeline Oaks Retirement Community residents Jim Taylor and Tom Sewell were reminiscing about past Marine Corps celebrations commemorating the birthday of our Corps.
Those of us who attended the birthday luncheon this week got to meet Adam Pizzutti who I met on the Honor Flight in May. Some of us took him to lunch later and invited him to this year's birthday lunch.
Yesterday I received three photos of him taken during WWII aboard ship and in Japan. The photos were accompanied with this note:
Here are two birthday menus that I still have. I got the first one from Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego in 1945. The second I got from the Oriental Hotel in Kobe, Japan in 1951.
Happy Birthday Marines!
Semper Fi,
MSgt. William Sherry
1945-1975
On 10 November 2015, Sgt Grit presented KA-BARs to the oldest and youngest Marine present at our Marine Corps Birthday event. The oldest Marine was MSgt. William Sherry who is 88 and served from 1945 to 1975. The youngest Marine was LCpl Greg Ufford who is 35 and served from 2001 to 2004. Semper Fi Marines!
I came across a photo taken on the 191st Marine Corps Birthday, November 10, 1966 at the 1st Marine Regiment HQ compound about 10 miles southwest of DaNang. It has Col. Radics, front left and Lt Gen Nickerson, front right. I am on rear left and Cpl Rodriguez is in rear right. We were both assigned to S-2. I am also enclosing the menu.
Happy Birthday to all of you Marines out there. Especially our former Corpsman, and more Marine than Most… Doc Erasmos Riojas a beloved "Doc" in Korea and now Navy SEAL ret'd, also to the Members of the 49th Marines (all those living above the 49th Parallel). This video is available for your viewing pleasure men. Enjoy and Semper Fidelis Marines… Hand Salute to ALL of our veterans and allied veterans…
Rembering Marine Corps Birthday at NTA 1962 H/29 chicken bearel detail, Gunny Saxton in charge, anyone rember?
Doc Hanson
Here are a couple more pictures from Cookies Tavern in South Philly on 10 November 2014. The 1st photo is of the two WWII Marine Veterans and the 2nd photo is of the Marine Corps League colorguard.
Merry Christmas Sgt and Thank You for everything you do for the Corps. The 1st picture was taken at this years Marine Corps Ball in Boca Raton, Florida, it is of my wife and I. The 2nd picture is of a Gunny, a Navy Chief Corpsman, and a beautiful woman.
This year at Cookies Tavern in South Philadelphia, PA, there were two Iwo Jima Marines that joined with other brother and sister Marines to celebrate our 239th Birthday!
Semper Fi
