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Chris Merrimette: A Story.
Chris Merrimette: A man has a lot of choices,
Chris Merrimette: and these choices made in life are rarely perfect.
Chris Merrimette: So he decides to sign a contract,
Chris Merrimette: because he want's to make a difference.
Chris Merrimette: He wants to save this world, make it a better place.
Chris Merrimette: The consequences are punishing,
Chris Merrimette: unforgiving,
Chris Merrimette: and he questions why he ever signed that contract.
Chris Merrimette: So what's the fucking point?
Chris Merrimette: I guess the point is responsibility of duty.
Chris Merrimette: Love of country.
Chris Merrimette: A way of life.
Chris Merrimette: Are we on the right side of this?
Chris Merrimette: These aren't our questions to ask.
Chris Merrimette: A Marine fights for the person standing next to him.
Chris Merrimette: He fights for the man who can't stand anymore.
Chris Merrimette: He fights so that others can have the opportunity to make a difference.
Chris Merrimette: That's how we make the unforgiving forgivable.
Chris Merrimette: And if we're lucky, somewhere in all the fighting and dying, we discover hope.
Chris Merrimette: And the Marines who killed and bled and died will always be jarheads.
Chris Merrimette: Their families will have to live with the unbearable demands of their ultimate sacrifice.
Chris Merrimette: And the ones who make it home, we never really leave our brothers behind.
Chris Merrimette: We always remember.
Chris Merrimette: We're professional fighting men. We are jarheads.
Don Michael Paul
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