Today's #traditionthursday looks at the Marine Corps Motto, "Semper Fidelis."⁠ ⁠ Early unofficial Marine mottoes included "Fortitudine" and "By Sea and by Land." After 1848, the Marine flag bore the traditional legend "From Tripoli to the Halls of the Montezumas" (an order that would be reversed in the famous hymn, probably for rhyming reasons).⁠ ⁠ In the early 1880s, the Latin "Semper Fidelis," meaning "Always Faithful," became official. Countless generations of Marines have lived by the motto,

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