General Louis H. Wilson, USMC (CMC)
Toast given at 203rd Marine Corps Birthday Ball
Camp Lejeune, N.C. 1978
The wonderful love of a beautiful maid,
The love of a staunch true man,
The love of a baby, unafraid,
Have existed since time began.
But the greatest of loves, The quintessence of loves,
even greater than that of a mother,
Is the tender, passionate, infinite love,
of one drunken Marine for another.
I’ll testify, AND drink to that!