What Is Caesar’s?

The Marines songfully claim to guard Heaven, and I’m for that. In World War II, however, there was a widespread report that once when the Marines stormed a Pacific beach against fierce Japanese challenge and finally fought themselves inland, they found a Seabee battalion already comfortably quartered. The Navy Construction Battalions, or Seabees, were one of the most remarkably wonderful outfits in the whole sad history of warfare. Their boss, Admiral Ben Moreell, planned it that way; and if it is not true that they were first at any wartime beach parties, they were early guests. Admiral Moreell always has been an early arriver. He was the Navy’s first Vice Admiral at the age of 51 in 1944, and he became an articulate and popular spokesman of regenerated conservatism in the postwar chaos.

The Admiral’s Log II: In Search of Freedom, by Admiral Ben Moreell. Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, 410 Lafayette Bldg., Philadelphia 6, Pa. $1.00

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John G. Ackelmire

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The Marines songfully claim to guard Heaven, and I’m for that. In World War II, however, there was a widespread report that once when the Marines stormed a Pacific beach against fierce Japanese challenge and finally fought themselves inland, they found a Seabee battalion already comfortably quartered. The Navy Construction Battalions, or Seabees, were one of the most remarkably wonderful outfits in the whole sad history of warfare. Their boss, Admiral Ben Moreell, planned it that way; and if it is not true that they were first at any wartime beach parties, they were early guests. Admiral Moreell always has been an early arriver. He was the Navy’s first Vice Admiral at the age of 51 in 1944, and he became an articulate and popular spokesman of regenerated conservatism in the postwar chaos.

The Admiral’s Log II: In Search of Freedom, by Admiral Ben Moreell. Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, 410 Lafayette Bldg., Philadelphia 6, Pa. $1.00