W. Thomas Smith, Jr
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Articles
November 26, 2011 |
September 11, 2011 |
By W. Thomas Smith, Jr
As we Marines – active, Reserve, retired, and former – celebrate the 235th anniversary of our birth in a Philadelphia ...
November 10, 2010
By W. Thomas Smith, Jr
“Come in, come in, buddy,” said the broad-shouldered, barrel-chested man with thinning white hair and a big happy-to-see-me smile, as ...
October 06, 2010
August 23, 2010 |
April 10, 2010 |
By W. Thomas Smith, Jr
In April 1945 Nazi Germany was on the ropes (Hitler would in fact put a bullet in his brain ...
January 25, 2010
By W. Thomas Smith, Jr
Speaking to some 500-plus Marines and their families on Saturday evening in Columbia, S.C., retired Marine Col. Myron C. Harrington ...
November 11, 2009
September 07, 2009 |
June 29, 2009 |
May 14, 2009 |
March 23, 2009 |
By W. Thomas Smith, Jr
Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman – the man responsible for laying much of my family’s homeland to waste in ...
January 02, 2009
By W. Thomas Smith, Jr
COL. JOHN W. RIPLEY, U.S. MARINE CORPS (ret.), recipient of the Navy Cross and for years one of my personal ...
November 03, 2008
By W. Thomas Smith, Jr
Thirty-six years ago this month I was a 13-year-old junior high school student: playing a little soccer, chasing a few ...
October 13, 2008
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