Volume 2 - Chapter 45 - Honour
| "You will never return every laugh. You will never finish every conversation. You will never repay every debt to the ones who fell beside you. That is life as a Marine. You do not carry the dead by mourning them. You carry them by walking forward with what they gave you. Their grit in your unerring aim. Their voice’s echo in your heart’s conviction. Their unfinished business in each and every one of your fights. That is life as a Marine. Grief is not the weight that holds you back. It is the proof that someone marched beside you— and the reason you will not stop marching now, nor ever, until the war is won. Your burden is not their absence. Your burden is to live in a way that honours what they gave up. That is life as a Marine.” [Attributed to Colonel Vesta Armin, UHF 3rd Fleet, after the loss of Bastion Alp 9, PFC 855]
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