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You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.
R. Lee Ermey
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R. Lee Ermey
Age: 74 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 24
Died: 2018
Died: April 15
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I play well with everybody.
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Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
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I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.
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