(See front cover)
From the halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli
We fight our country's battles
On the land as on the sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean
We are proud to claim the title
Of United States Marine.
The U. S. Marine Corps does not sing Christmas carols. When it is Christmas in the Marine Corps, "the toughest soldiers in the world" on foreign duty sometimes startle the natives by dressing a Christmas tree under the tropic sun, or—as in Nicaragua last...