The premier performance of Semper Fidelis was a watershed in that it marked the debut of really fancy field music performance. |
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And I will spend a lifetime trying to explain the complex of emotions that inhere in the motto, Semper Fidelis. |
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I'm thankful that in 1961 I joined the United States Marines and learned that Semper Fidelis is more than a slogan. |
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After the war, the Marines' Hymn came into use, which music inspired by a French opera, and in 1883 the Marines' motto became Semper Fidelis. |
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Semper Fidelis became the official march of the Marine Corps and, prior to World War I, it had been the favorite military march of the German Kaiser himself. |
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