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Happy Belated Birthday Chesty Puller
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Happy Belated Birthday Chesty Puller


Jun 27, 2018, 9:39 AM

Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller (June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general who, early in his military career, fought guerrillas in Haiti and Nicaragua. He later went on to serve with distinction in World War II and the Korean War.
Puller is the most decorated Marine in American history. He is one of two U.S. servicemen awarded five Navy Crosses and one Army Distinguished Service Cross. Puller's five Crosses are next in number to the eight times Eddie Rickenbacker received the nation's second-highest military award for valor.[1]
In 1955 (after 37 years of service), Puller retired from the Marine Corps. He lived in Virginia and died in 1971, at age 73.

A LIVING LEGEND AMONG MEN! SEMPER FIDELIS GOOD SIR!

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Our country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any America because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race.

~Chesty Puller
Lt.General United States Marine Corps


And a proud son of a Confederate veteran


Jun 27, 2018, 9:50 AM

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/09/books/chapters/chesty.html

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Re: Happy Belated Birthday Chesty Puller


Jun 27, 2018, 1:09 PM

Wherever you are.

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Re: Happy Belated Birthday Chesty Puller


Jun 27, 2018, 1:55 PM

happy birthday sir

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Re: Happy Belated Birthday Chesty Puller


Jun 27, 2018, 3:19 PM

For a photo and a little more info:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4055/lewis-burwell-puller

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Re: Happy Belated Birthday Chesty Puller


Jun 27, 2018, 6:28 PM

I always stop by and pay my respects to General Puller when I go by Christ Church cemetery in Saluda, Virginia. There will never be another like him. One of my classmates at Quantico, John Hoff, won the Navy Cross in Viet Nam and for Chesty to have won 5 is just incredible.

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Re: Happy Belated Birthday Chesty Puller


Jun 27, 2018, 8:31 PM

From an Army guy to my Marine Brethren.. Semper Fi! My wife's uncle was at Chosen Reservoir with Chesty..

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Re: Happy Belated Birthday Chesty Puller


Jun 28, 2018, 7:48 AM

ARMY TIGER said:

From an Army guy to my Marine Brethren.. Semper Fi! My wife's uncle was at Chosen Reservoir with Chesty..



GET SOME!

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Our country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any America because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race.

~Chesty Puller
Lt.General United States Marine Corps


Re: Happy Belated Birthday Chesty Puller


Jun 27, 2018, 9:41 PM

I was watching some videos ("Hell in the Pacific") this week and they talked about his service at Okinawa. Heck of a guy for sure.

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Re: Happy Belated Birthday Chesty Puller


Jun 28, 2018, 7:54 AM

A Marines Marine. Kill em all let God sort em out. He lead from the front, he was not REMF.

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Re: Happy Belated Birthday Chesty Puller


Jun 28, 2018, 7:59 AM

Chesty is good.

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