“The love of a staunch true man,
The love of a baby, unafraid,
Have existed since time began.
But the greatest of loves, The quintessence of loves.
even greater than that of a mother,
Is the tender, passionate, infinite love,
of one drunken Marine for another.”
—Toast given at the 203rd Marine Corps Birthday Ball, Camp Lejeune, N.C. 1978. Written by General Wilson, Commandant of the Marine Corps. Besides being Commandant, Gen. Wilson was a poet:
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