NathanFearlessness
In Shanghai, the summer in the year 1941, the then-acting battalion commander Puller wen into a non-commissioned officers meeting. The air was heavy as the United States might have to go into the Second World War any time. A sergeant inquired Puller how he would handle the situation if Japan began “shooting war” to get the United States to fight in the Second Great War. Puller simply said, “I don’t know what the United States Government will do; I don’t know what Marine Headquarters will do; and I don’t know what the regiment will do. But – no orders to the contrary – I’ll take my battalion and fight my way the hell back to Frisco.”