These quotes were chosen to help represent what we have displayed in our body map. As you can see the body map has two sides to it, one side that involves the crying face, the gun as an arm and the letters USMC going down the leg is how marines see themselves. The half crying face represents how they really feel on the inside, but are forced to hide it because “real men don’t cry”. Marines are thought as the manliest of men, not as people who feel pain or sadness. The gun represents what has been drilled into their head time and time again, their riffle was their life, and it should never leave their side. They think of their riffle as their arm, they see themselves as a piece of machinery. USMC going down the leg represents the tattoo branded