Well, as was mentioned earlier, the detachment participated in the Port Washington Memorial Day Parade. The pictures are now online. These 2 are a sample for your viewing pleasure. Click on each picture and a larger version will open in your browser. You can view the rest of them here .

Our Color Guard members are (from L to R) Chris Sacoccia, Mike Kummer, Rudy Jonak and John Bauman.

Mike and Chris also represented The Corps as members of the Honor Guard, which presented a 21 gun salute to our fallen Service Men and Women at the end of the day's ceremony.

Well done and Bravo Zulu Marines!

A busy Memorial Day weekend and more changes to the blog's layout

This past weekend was Memorial Day Weekend and it was filled with various activities, parades, Marine Corps displays and demos and Memorial services to honor those veterans who paid the ultimate sacrifice to ensure our American way of life. Pictures and descriptions of some of those activities will follow soon.

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If this is your first visit to this blog, you won't notice the layout changes that have been made. However if you've been here before, you will notice things have been moved around a bit. Hopefully the changes will make the blog easier to navigate and enjoy. If there's anything you want to see here, contact us and let us know!

More work on the blog

Still experimenting and playing around with the various gadgets available on the blog. As you can see up top we've now got a clock telling time in N.Y. where this blog originates, and Iraq and Afghanistan where our Marines and other Service members are doing what they do best; defending our nation and safeguarding our way of life. On the right, below the Links to the Corps are links to various Marine Corps related videos. Simply place your cursor over any of the videos, click the video and it will show right over the blog page. Click on the video screen which pops up and you'll be redirected to YouTube where you can view a larger screen version of the video.
There is also now a link to our detachment's newsletter. Click on the link and it will bring you to our detachment's web site page where you can view and download the last several issues of "Finnegan's 411"
Semper Fidelis!
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Meet Finnegan, our mascot

Say hello to Finnegan! Finn is a 4 year old English Bulldog. He was appointed as the Port Washington detachment's mascot at a small ceremony during our meeting on Nov 10, 2005. Appropriate that he was appointed on the Marine Corps Birthday, no? Knowing that the English Bulldog is the official mascot of the United States Marine Corps, Finn takes his job seriously. As you can see from his picture, he wears his uniform proudly. Click on each picture and a larger version will open in your browser.
Finn spends the majority of his day relaxing although he has been known to exhibit brief spurts of energy when all he wants to do is chase his favorite ball around the back yard. Otherwise he prefers more sedentary pursuits such as sitting at someone's feet being petted or being fed a tasty treat. He is an attention hound not at all happy when he's not the center of attention.
Finn eats twice a day and no doubt dreams of eating during his many daytime naps.

Day One 5/21/09

Welcome to the new Port Washington, N.Y. Marine Corps League blog!
The purpose of this blog is to increase awareness of the Marine Corps League in general and more specifically the Port Washington Detachment.

The Port Washington, N.Y. Detachment of the Marine Corps League (#614), was chartered on 7 February 1986.We are a group of active duty, reserve and former United States Marines (and U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsmen who served in Marine Corps FMF units). Our purpose? "Members of the Marine Corps League join together in camaraderie and fellowship for the purpose of preserving the traditions and promoting the interests of the United States Marine Corps, as well as providing camaraderie and assistance to Marines, as well as to their widows and orphans".

We count among our members, Marine Corps veterans of Pelelui, Iwo, and Okinawa, the Korean War, Viet Nam, Operation Iraqi Freedom and every other "clime and place where we could take a gun." Our membership boasts officers and enlisted, grunts, air wingers, supply personnel, administrators and Marines from every other MOS of the Corps. Our common bond is that we are Marines!

We meet the second Thursday of each month during the months September through June, at 2000 hrs (8:00 PM for those of you who forgot how to tell military time) at the BPO Elks Lodge at 30 Haven Ave. Port Washington, N.Y 11050

If you're presently serving either in the active Marine Corps, the reserves or you're an honorably discharged former Marine or FMF Corpsman looking to connect with other Marines to rekindle that special "Esprit de Corps" that only Marines can share, if you like to swap sea stories, share memories, if you want to reconnect to old friends or make some new friends, we invite you to join us!

You can learn more about us; who we are and what we do here
Contact us at USMC7585@gmail.com