One of the greatest fighting groups ever assembled, the United States Marine Corps, is celebrating a birthday today. They were founded on today's date in 1775 under authorization of the Continental Congress.
I was originally going to go to the monthly breakfast meeting of the Camp Douglas Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans in Des Plaines, Illinois, but the carpool fell through.
On my way back home, I remembered a Marine group was having a breakfast at the Lakes American Legion Post 703 in Fox Lake. The parking lot was full, but after some driving, I found a spot.
I paid my $7 and saw the ceremony leading up to the breakfast. Quite impressive, including, of course, the singing of The Marine's Hymn, and I mean all THREE verses.
Breakfast consisted of Heavy-Duty coffee guaranteed to put hair on your chest, scrambles eggs and SOS, ____ on toast, a term lovingly given for a sausage gravy on toast.
This was the Tom Grosvenor Memorial Marine Corps Birthday Breakfast and fund-raiser for Toys for Tots. Proceeds from the breakfast going for that great cause. In the past, they had it at the VFW in Wauconda, but they had outgrown the facilities there, so moved here.
The original meeting was held Nov. 10, 1983, at Hoff's Kitchen in Grayslake. From that date it has been held annually. Tom Grosvenor died in 2001 and it was renamed in his honor.
After breakfast, a microphone was passed around to everyone in attendance and each person had a little to say about their connection to the Corps.
I have some of the comments at http://roaddogsroadlog.blogspot.com/
OO-Rah Corps. --RoadDog
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