Happy Birthday Marines!
Perhaps back in 431 B.C. Pericles was talking about the U.S. Marines when he said:
We have compelled every land and every sea
to open a path for our valor, and have
everywhere planted eternal memorials
of our friendship and our enmity.
— Pericles
Pericles, Funeral Oration over the Athenian Dead, 431 B.C.