When President John F. Kennedy (here, receiving military honors with the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup) visited the "Eighth and Eye" Barracks in 1962, he verified that Thomas Jefferson's instructions had been followed faithfully. JFK's Marines showed why, 16 months later, those instructions were so important.

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