My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis. And I often find myself wishing everyone had a similar opportunity, to learn about shared dependence, loyalty, responsibility to and for others, about mutual respect and honor, and about the power of appealing to the best that’s in us as human beings, not the worst.
The transcript of Jim Lehrer’s speech at the dedication of the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
