Greg Corrales

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

“We’ve sworn an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. We didn’t join the Marine Corps to lurk in showers.”

- A Quantico, Va.-based major, who is gay, dismissing some Marines’ fears of showering with openly gay troops.

“I want to make it clear to all of you that I shall never give the order ‘abandon ship’, the only way you can leave the ship is if she sinks beneath your feet.”

       Admiral Earl Mountbatten, 1949, order to his crew while commander of HMS Kelly.

by Greg Corrales

“Fight”

Response by Edward O’Toole to the question printed in the 1940 San Francisco High School of Commerce yearbook, of what he would do to defend the high school and America.

by Greg Corrales

“The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land.”
General Order No. 11, General John A. Logan, May 5, 1868

By Greg Corrales

“We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgement of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.”

- Benjamin Franklin, December 2, 1772