Word: louisianian
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Trust Major General Lejeune to look out for the Marines; he has spent more than 30 of his 57 years in the Corps and his life has been bound up in it. A Louisianian by birth, son of a Confederate captain of cavalry, he has lived with the Marine Corps through its growth and travails. During the Spanish War, he commanded the Marine Guard first on the Cincinnati, then on the Massachusetts. With 400 men, he camped in the Panama Canal Zone, in 1903-04, while Panama extracted her freedom from Colombia. In the Cuban revolution of 1912, he commanded...