It's hard for us to go in and negotiate under these conditions. We can't. We just can't.

Politics was an natural as breathing to us.

She had a personal relationship with Jesus. A real one. Even in her death that was very evident to us. I don't want to say she was saintly, but she was right up there.

The doctors told us it would be a matter of hours (before she died). But it wasn't. It was another week.

It's our connection to the Chesapeake Bay that makes us special. You couldn't do this in Indianapolis.

It's going to make us better Marines, and better people.