Chesty Puller
Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller (June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) was a United States Marine officer. He is the most decorated United States Marine.
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- Those days in the woods saved my life many a time in combat
- Recalling his early days trapping muskrats before school to supplement his mother's income
- The Savage Wars of Peace, Max Boot, 2002.
- I want to go where the guns are!
- Chesty Puller http://www.polaris.net/~jrube/chestpul.htm
- You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.
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- Take me to the brig. I want to see real Marines.
- We’re surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them.
- So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those bastards won't get away this time!
- Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a heartier race!
- They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!