"They told (us) to open the embassy, or “we’ll blow you away.”
And then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns, and they said in Somali, “Igaralli ahow,” which means “Excuse me, I didn’t mean it, my mistake.”"
—Karen Aquilar, in the U.S. Embassy, Mogadishu, Somalia, 1991
Marines from 2/7 and 3/8 celebrate the Marine Corps' Birthday.
