she never wounds 'till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her." The rattlesnake also has sharp eyes, and "may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance." Furthermore, "She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. "I observed on one of the drums belonging to the marines now raising, there was painted a Rattle-Snake, with this modest motto under it, 'Don't tread on me.' As I know it is the custom to have some device on the arms of every country, I supposed this may have been intended for the arms of America."
In December 1775, Ben Franklin writing anonymously to the Pennsylvania Journal: We were very proud to send Semper Fi a check TALO will contribute $33 per gun to: Thank you for helping to make this possible Suribachi, is memorialized in the Marine Corps monument in Washington, DC The courage and gallantry of the American forces, climaxed by the dramatic raising of the American flag over Mt. A tiny island in the Pacific dominated by a volcanic mountain and pockmarked with caves, Iwo Jima was the setting for a five-week, non-stop battle between 70,000 American Marines and an unknown number of deeply entrenched Japanese defenders. The fight for Iwo Jima in 1945 was one of the bloodiest of World War II. Unique US Flag image hardwood grips with the rampant Colt horse logo inlay.
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A dramatic and deeply engraved and polished depiction of the famous Marine stand at Iwo Jima on the stainless slide of a full size Colt Government.