In Honor and Memoriam of Corporal Hobart Lloyd Cobb USMC

[MillRatUSMC]

http://www.geocities.com/millrat_99/mrcobb.html





To many of us, he was Mr. Cobb, but we held him in the highest of esteem.
If Semper Fidelis has any mean, his service in time of war was holding to those words.
We as Marines know what kind a man Mr. Cobb was, and his passing has left a big void.
He has now joined many Marines, who I also cherished their friendship.
A few lines from the poem 'The Corporals' by Corporal Robert L. Cook USMC. Who so kindly has given me permission to use a few lines;
He puts himself
In jeopardy. . .
He closest
To his men
When orders come down
From the top,
They all end up
With him!

For he's a lowly Corporal
A do or die Marine.
A member of the
Greatest Corps,
He keeps his honor clean

Those words would do honor to a Marine
Many only knew as Mr. Cobb

Semper Fidelis, with some misty in our eyes
Ricardo

[sgt tony]

the Link don't work

[Phantom Blooper]

Excellent lasting tribute to Hobart! Thanks Rat!GREAT Job!

Semper-Fi!

[MillRatUSMC]

I wonder why that link is working on some computers?
Let's try it this way;

http://www.geocities.com/millrat_99/mrcobb.html

I forgot to mention, the 4th of July would have been Mr. Cobb birthday.
So, while celebrating the 4th of July, we should remember a Marine known to us as Mr. Cobb

Semper Fidelis
Ricardo

[jinelson]

A very nice and fitting tribute Ricardo. Mr Cobb is truly missed but more important truly remembered.

Semper Fi

Jim

[thedrifter]

Outstanding!

Thank You!

Ellie

[MillRatUSMC]

On this day, July 4, 1925 in Middlesboro, Kentucky, was born a baby boy, who years later would served in two of some of the heaviest fighting of World War II.
Hobart Lloyd Cobb was the son of the late Robert Manuel Cobb and the late Julie Melvina Miracle Cobb.
In his later years, some on the web would just know him by the title 'Mr. Cobb', after reading 'With the Old Breed" by Eugene 'Sledgehammer' Sledge and our own Robert L. Cook book 'Poems by A Marine, For the Marines and All Who Hold Them in Esteem', I'm able to get a better if not clear view of Mr. Cobb and many of our own World War II Marines on this message board.
We're celebrating our 232th Birthday of this great nation, Mr. Cobb would have been celebrating his 82th birthday on this day, the 4th of July 2007.
We would like to close with a few words from Robert's poem Tarawa, I pray he doesn't get mad at me for using this few words;


You feel like
You've done your best
But there is little time to rest,
The battle not over.
And so it goes
From man to man
Each doing the best he can.
The sum and total
Of it all,
Is some men live
And some men fall.
And some return
To tells us all!

That about sums it all, of what I see of some of senior Marines from World War II.
May God grant Corporal Hobart Lloyd Cobb USMC eternal peace, we pray.

Semper Fidelis
Ricardo

[Dave Coup]

Thanks Ricardo. A fitting tribute to a fine Marine.
Have a safe Independence Day

Semper Fidelis

Dave

[FistFu68]

IT WILL BE A GRAND~REUNION~SOMEDAY MR.COBB~S/F MARINE MY RESPECT FOR YOU HAS NO BOUND'S OR TIME-LIMIT,YOU WILL A'LWAY'S HAVE IT!!!