One Marine’s story

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Posted on: April 17th, 2007
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“I’m not well acquainted with the security guards who patrol the college where I work. But theyre conscientious and polite and they never complain when they have to open a building for you on a weekend. And they must do a good job because the campus crime rate is very low.

But when one of them mentioned one Sunday that he had resigned from the Marine Corps after 15 years, we talked.

Ill call him Jorge, partly because privacy allows him to speak more freely, and partly because hes a representative of a group that deserves recognition, the sizable contingent of Hispanics who serve in the U.S. Marines.”

Source: http://www.scrippsnews.com
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