Source

Statement on his reasons for leaving Virginia Military Institute after his freshman year to enlist in the US Marine Corps (1918), as quoted in Fox Valley Veterans : A Salute to Hometown Heroism (2008) by George Rawlinson, p. 230

year

1918

locator

p. 230

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“I want to go where the guns are.” Chesty Puller. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-D8F7B0C696. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/d8f7b0c696