The 1-year-old Fayette-Coweta Clyde Thomason chapter of the Marine Corps League held its first Marine Corps birthday event in Sharpsburg, Ga., Saturday, Nov. 7, and with 40 Marines and spouses in attendance, it was a very successful first effort.

On Oct. 23 this year, at 6 a.m. Eastern time, the vast majority of America was sleeping snugly in warm, dry beds. But in Jacksonville, N.C., a group of 120 or so people gathered in misting rain to pay homage to deceased men who had been their sons, fathers, brothers, husbands, comrades-in-arms, relatives or friends.