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Tango01 | 10 Nov 2016 3:55 p.m. PST |
"Most Marines, even in their sleep, can recite the historical significance behind each part of the Dress Blue Alpha uniform — the attire they'll be wearing at the Marine Corps Birthday Ball. Each decorative piece tells a story profoundly stitched into the heritage of the Corps just as it is stitched into the fabric of the "blues." But the legends that live on, draped over the shoulders of these "soldiers of the sea," often have very little or no basis in fact. "Marines really love their history, and they should want to know it as accurately as possible," Owen Conner, the uniforms curator at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, told Task & Purpose in an interview…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
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