Be Excellent to Each Other: Veteran's Day and the Marine Corps Birthday

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Tomorrow is Veteran's Day and today is the 234th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. Oooorah! Semper Fi Marines!

Favorite Quotes

"It's never too early to start beefing up your obituary." -The Most Interesting Man in the World
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." -Sri Chinmoy Ghose/Jimi Hendrix
'I'd rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.' -Gerry Spencer
'One day may we all meet together in the light of understanding.' - Malcolm X
'Be great in act as you have in thought.' - William Shakespeare
'Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.' - Mark Twain
'Hands that help are holier than lips that pray.' - Gandhi

Great Reading

A Case of Exploding Mangoes
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World
Faith at War: A Journey on the Front Lines of Islam
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Generation Kill
Ghost Wars
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Letter to a Christian Nation
Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror
Live from Death Row
Mountains Beyond Mountains
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower
Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs
Strength in What Remains
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Food Revolution
The Kite Runner
The Places In Between
The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda
Three Worlds Gone Mad