TO THE MARINES

There’s only one banner says “Semper Fidelis!” There’s only one flag we defend, There’s only one heart and one mind and one body In all of our battles we send. We fought and we bled on Bataan and Corregidor, Oh, how we held them at Wake! And waited in vain for more men and munitions With all the Pacific at stake. The sleepers were many, but we were the few Who wakened the quickest and fought, And while readjustment and training were planned, We did what we could, what we ought. Our dead are at Henderson. Think you they rest? They fight even now at our side, Refusing to enter the realms of the blest Until we have beaten the tide!