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The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.

The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It’s up to me to allow myself to come home.
– Thomas J Brennan

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  1. If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge me. – US Marine Corps
  2. Home isn’t a place. It’s not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you. – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
  3. I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. – Marcel Duchamp
  4. When you are a child at home alone, you’re afraid someone might come; when you are old and at home alone, you’re afraid no one will come. – Ljupka Cvetanova
  5. I have finally come to realize that it’s being forced to be honest with myself that’s made my pain painful all along. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  6. Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone’s life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble. – Nadeem Aslam
  7. There’s nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan]. – Vladislav Tamarov
  8. Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him. – Melissa Seligman
  9. I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan. – Jan Valtin
  10. We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully ‘pacify’ what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago. – Jake Wood
  11. Rain on your body burned my heart. (Pluie sur ton corps – Brûla mon coeur.) – Charles de Leusse
  12. To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that? – Richard D Wolff
  13. The body is a clothing that suits us for life. (Le corps est un habit – Qui nous va à vie.) – Charles de Leusse
  14. A glass of happiness fills whole body. (Un verre de bonheur – Remplit tout le corps) – Charles de Leusse
  15. Body is morning dew that shines to the rise of the hands. (Corps est ros̩e du matin РQui brille au lever des mains.) РCharles de Leusse
  16. If Cupid misses the heart, he touches the body fatally. (Si Cupidon rate le cÅ“ur, – Il touche mortellement le corps) – Charles de Leusse
  17. The home is always a home and a noble place for shaping hearts! A good home is good for life! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  18. Who you are and what you believe in is your real home, the only home no one can take from you, the only home that will last. – Adam Bagdasarian
  19. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. – Hermann Hesse
  20. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes Life meaningful. ~ – Joshua J Marine
  21. Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima. – John C Wright
  22. I’m just an ??????? Marine…I’m not the kind of guy people like you should depend on. – Avery Flynn
  23. A smooth sea never made a skilled marine. – English Proverb
  24. The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. – Steven Pressfield
  25. The thing about a marine is that they can be the nicest men and women you will ever meet, but when it comes to their duty there are none fiercer. – Joshua Mcnutt
  26. Sweetheart, I’ll be a Marine -˜til they bury my cold, dead, decrepit ass in the ground a good fifty or sixty years from now. – Dee Tenorio
  27. There’s no such thing as an ex-marine. – EXMARINES
  28. Peace and rest at length have comeAll the day’s long toil is past,And each heart is whispering, ‘Home,Home at last. – Thomas Hood
  29. I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn’t want to think about it. – Elizabeth Wein
  30. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  31. Come on, it is a guest bedroom! If you want your guests to feel at home, they should be allowed to do whatever they do at home! – Daniele Lanzarotta
  32. That’s what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast. – Nenia Campbell
  33. A forced kindness deserves no thanks – Thomas Fuller
  34. If I am indeed my own god, I’d better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  35. Come out, come out, wherever you are… come out, come out, or you’ll end up in the tar… – Beatrice Rose Roberts
  36. From rocks come gold.From coal comes diamonds.From oysters come pearls.From caterpillars come ????erflies.From adversity come the great. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  37. Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself. – Jonathan Franzen
  38. always the return journey to home is the sweetest, its just because we take memories home with us – G Adithyan
  39. We all have that one friend that walks into your home like its their home – Thabang Gideon Magaola
  40. It felt as if I’d been teleported to the dark side of the moon, forced to gaze out at the stars and wonder which one I’d come from. – Heather Heffner

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