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It's not lost on me that somebody paid

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a price for me to be here , That

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somebody paved the way if I'm tall ,

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it's because I'm on someone else's

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shoulders . There's a whole generation

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of marines who went through a lot to

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get me to where I'm able to hear today .

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I am master , understand Richardson . I

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am the G1 senior enlisted advisor for

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the Marine Forces Reserve . I just

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conducted my , what will probably be my

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last reenlistment . I'm 26 years of

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service . So this will probably be my

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last one during the mathematics . Right .

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Um , I wanted to do it here at uh , the

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Marine Corps Museum at the Montfort

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Point exhibit . Uh , just important to

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be here . Number one , the facility

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here . This is a building full of our

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stories , but then this one here hits ,

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hits home because again 80 years ago ,

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the first black Marine got to camp

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johnson , which was then Montford Point .

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Very first Black Marine showed up to be

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a United States Marine . And so I

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thought this place was fitting . Mhm