Each Cub also will be including a letter in the package, ... Hopefully, (the Marines) will write back.

Look, many of us here are regular marines ... I will die as a marine because that is my dream.

The kids will be very much alone over the next months with so many Marines deployed, and it's nice for them to have someone like a grandma or grandpa around.

I think they were trying to send a signal to young Marines that if they go, they will be followed to their graves by the Marine Corps.

As our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines defend the nation, ... they must know that their country will never abandon them, that we will spare no effort to bring them home. This is our sacred trust we owe to those who serve.

I know Michael's fellow Marines and his family will forever cherish the memory of their comrade, son, brother, husband and father. His tremendous capacity for love shaped their lives. We will never forget him.