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Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Happy 251st Birthday, US Marines

Today is the 251st birthday for the US Marines.  Very cool.  We have had some good times at the Marine Ball and with our own Marine, David.  You can click here to see some posts I  put up over the years here with more photos of family and David.  Here is a poster of "our" Marine from 2008.


Here is the message from  the Commandant of the Marine Corps today:

https://www.cmc.marines.mil/Birthday/

It will be Veterans Day tomorrow so here  is a shot of Gene and David.  Gene was on a missile crew in the Strategic Air Command when he was in the Air Force at the end of the Vietnam War.


Flag was on the Scavenger Hunt from life list.  I sketched at the dining table in the Canson Mixed Media large sketchbook.  Half a page.  I didn't have the flag folded exactly right, no  disrespect intended.  


Number 1 flag - with an Ohuhu 0.2 pen in the large sketchbook. 



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I Grew up in a small town , Magdalena, New Mexico. I enjoy art and the pleasure other people get from my work. I always donate some of my sales and art to charities, especially for children. That started in Bolivia with Para los Niños. "I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns." -- Winston Churchill

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