This year’s Marine Corps birthday celebration started with the expected pomp and circumstance that is fitting to mark 242 years of history, but Wednesday’s event included something extra: a dream coming true for one young girl.Joyce Ortiz Arman, of Reading, Pennsylvania, stood tall among the bleacher crowd at Liversedge Field as Camp Lejeune’s Commanding General, Brig. Gen. Julian D. Alford, told onlookers she traveled from the north to eastern North Carolina for [...]
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