Ronald Reagan actually said...

Graduates of platoons 1044, 1045, 1046, and 1047, it's my privilege today to be the first to address you as marines, for marines you are and marines you always will be.

Context

Remarks to Marine Corps Basic Training Graduates in Parris Island, South Carolina

06/03/1986

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