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Marine Corps veteran and former Newsweek editor William Broyles, Jr., praised the comic for having " a certain gritty reality ," but Jan Scruggs, President of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, questioned if the Vietnam War should be the subject of a comic book and if it might trivialize it.
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a Marine Corps of 3 divisions and 3 air wings with 175,000 men ; ;
`` I think they played Hail To The Chief better than the Marine Corps Band, and we are grateful to them '', President Kennedy remarked after mounting the bandstand and shaking hands with conductor James Christian Pfohl.
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Think, for example, of the spirit of the Marine Corps.
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The plot follows a love triangle among a young woman, her Marine husband and the paralyzed Vietnam War veteran she meets while her husband is overseas.
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United States Marine Corps veteran of World War II.
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While in the Marines, he attained the rank of Sergeant, and was a decorated combat veteran, earning three battle stars and the Expert Rifleman's medal while serving with the famed 1st Marine Division in Korea.
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