Why Marines fight

France, 1918

Senator James Webb and his Lance Corporal son, Jim

A college boy dodges the draft but ends up going to war

Yale student John Chafee frets we'll defeat Japan before he gets there

Ron Christmas outtwits the Corps and stays on duty despite his wounds

Sergeant John Fitzgerald: "I killed an awful lot of people in two days."

George Howe, one of the last Chinaside marines

"Iraq is lost" says Col. Ward Scott

A Dubliner wanders into Times Square, joins the Marines, and heads to Vietnam

Mack Allen, a Southern gentleman who fought the Japanese and Chinese

Iwo Jima revisited by the Marines who fought there

He fought at the "Chosin"

Coleman of the Yankees who played in the World Series and flew in two wars

A Long Island detective with a Bronze Star and three purple hearts

A "proud mustang" who was in three wars and ended up a general

Jack Rowe lost and eye and other parts and now grows avocados and chases rattlesnakes

Combat Engineer Captain Lauren Edwards and her first firefight

Bestselling author Mick Trainor learned his trade in Korea and lectures at Harvard

Gen. Smedley Butler: "I could have given Al Capone a few hints."

NY Police Commissioner Ray Kelly cites the USMC's "principles of leadership"

A Browning automatic rifleman on the day he became "a real Marine"

Gunnery Sergeant Milks and his Afghan adventures

A Marine who wouldn't have missed the "Chosin" for a million dollars

A sailor, a Marine, and now a Senator, John Warner

After the war, Ramon Gibson plays it safe and becomes a test pilot

Medal of Honor winner Hector Cafferata says "I was a Marine-happy kid

A young Lieutenant hits the beach "sprayed with his sergeant's brains

Joe Owen was to tall and skinny for the paratroops, so the Marines took him

Some marines handle war better than peace

Chuck Curley took a buddy's body home from Korea to Olean, NY

An old man remembers Belleau Wood and who died there

The Jesuits taught Pierce Power Latin; Hill 749 taught him the rest

Frank Kiss won the Silver Star atop a tank on his "last raid"

Why Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace joined the Marines

Gonzalo Garza worked in the fields, became a Marine, and earned a Ph.D.

"I was 'Dirty Harry' of the Marine Corps" said Bill Phillips

Before he was a Marine, Jack Vohs joined the Army. And the Navy.

A machine gunner they all called "Hollywood"

"Wild Hoss" Callan was saving his combat pay to help keep the ranch going

Harvard footballer Doug Bradlee hoped in war to "find God"

Stacking the rifles, one last time, and sounding "Recall."