Marine Hymn
Sirs:
Reference the controversy raging in "Letters" column of TIME concerning the sacredness of a certain Marine Corps Hymn, the attached clipping may be interesting to one side or the other of the debate, or perhaps to both.
W. R. SLAUGHTER Langley Field, Va.
Two verses from a parody published in The Pilot House, a colyum of the Virginian Pilot and the Norfolk Landmark:
From the halls of Montezuma
To the shores oj Tripoli We fought our country's battles
On land and on the sea; But when battles they are lacking
And the world to...
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