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...Marine Hymn...
...been killed in the war of Prohibition." Muffled drums rolled. A bugler blew taps. Chief speaker: Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards, retired, wartime commander of the 26th ("Yankee") Division, who asked for "laws promulgated by the ballot and not enforced by the bullets." When the band played the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," the crowd rose and cheered...
...article published in your issue of Dec. 23 under the title of "Montezuma, Tripoli, and Beyond," contains the following reference to "The Marines' Hymn": "But hard boiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown out anything suggestive of home or homesickness with their Corps anthem, "From the Halls of Montezuma," a song of many unprintable versions." (italics supplied...
...your issue of Dec. 23, under "International," you mention the Marines' Hymn as "From the Halls of Montezuma, a song of many unprintable versions...
...nearly 13 years I have heard it sung by Marines in many lands and not once have I heard included in it a word which could be termed "unprintable." Your description of our hymn will be resented by all Marines...