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A Band of Marines
A Book and Poems
A Long, Long Trail
Along the Way
A Marine is a Marine
And Yet I Wonder
Another Year
Armistice Day
ARMS
A Sergeant of Marines
As I Lie Sleeping
As One By One
As Time Goes By
A Thirty-Year Man
A Tribute to Bill Mauldin
Away All Boats!
A World Event Is Coming
Belts
Black Sand
Boot Camp '42
Brews!
Bring Forth the Banner!
Bugles
Can It Be?
Chaplain
China Marines
Chow Call
Christmas Dreams
Christmas with the Troops
Clouds of War
Come Walk With Me
Company Clerk
Corpsman! Corpsman! Over Here!
Corporals
Count No More
Count Not The Days
Desert Troops
Don't You Hate When. . .
Each Day They Die
Fear Not
Field Rations
Field Sanitation
Fix Bayonets!
Forgive Me, Lord
For the Good of the Corps
From Boot to Top Marine
Gunnys
Guys Like Me
Half-Tracks
Hats!
Have You Forgot?
Hell, It Ain't Over
He's Home Again
Hikes
History
House on Bunkum Road
How Dark the Night
I Am A Marine Veteran
Iceland
I Dug A Hole
If I Ruled the World
If I Was a Wise Man
If I Was the President
If I Were A Marine's Wife
If You Love Your Comfort
I Get to Thinkin
I Got A Buddy
I Hardly Know Ye
I Heard the Bugles
In My Time
I Remember Pearl
Iron Pot
Is This My Land?
It Takes a Marine
I Took A Trip
I Took Me to a Concert
It Seems Like Only Yesterday
It Shall Always Be
Just a Crusty Old Marine
Just a Few
Leatherneck
Legs
Long and Bloody
Marines Ain't All Muscle
More Mud!
Mr. Higgins
Mud!
My Computer
My Legacy
My Ol' Back Porch
My Ol' Blues
My Ol' Boondockers
My Ol' Canteen
My Ol' Company
My Old Buddy
My Ol' Buddy Passed Away
My Ol' Mess Kit
My Sergeant Done Told Me
New Zealand
Night Scenes
Now Look at Me
Ode to An Old Marine
Ode to a Veteran
Ode to a Warrior
Officers
Oh, Woe is Us!
Old Glory
Once Again
Once Again, The Question
Once a Marine!
Once a Marine! (Part II)
Once and Always
Once More, With Feeling
Our Flag
Our Vets
Packs!
Parris Island
Praise the Lord
Raggedy-Ass Marines
Railroading
Retirement I
Retirement II
Return Our Warriors
Rifles, Belts and Bayonets
Say! Can You See?
Sea-Going Marines
Shootin
Skin-er Back, Mac
Skivvies
Spit Shine
Tarawa
Tattoos
Tents
That Day
That Day II
The Big Eight Zero
The Blues
The Chosin Few
These Old Hands
The First One Hundred
The Folks Back Home
The Fourth
The Great Generation
The Nam
The Night Was Dark
The Old Corps and the New
The Range
There's A Long, Long Trail
There's A War On
There Was A War
These Old Hands
They Answered the Call
They Are Around!
They Resolve
The Zealand
This Is the Man
Too Late
Top Kick
To The Corps!
To The Ladies!
Troop Ships
Tuns Tavern Tune
Victory's Prayer
Warriors Past
We Got Ourselves a War!
We Hold These Truths
We Were Marines!
What Does It Take?
When I Was. . .
When I Was Seventeen
When I Was Young
Where Have All My Buddies Gone?
Who Is This Guy?
You Know the War Is Over

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Robert L. Cook served with Regimental Weapons Co. (2nd-2nd)
from 1942~44, at Guadalcanal and Tarawa, during a 33-month overseas tour. Below is a selection of his poetry.
Poetry
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Robert Lin Cook, then and now
It Came To Pass
Robert's memoir of World War II,
from Guadalcanal to Tarawa