When a Soldier is killed in combat, his family receives a letter from the Secretary of the Army. When a Sailor dies in conflict his family receives a letter from the Secretary of the Navy. When a Marine dies in conflict, his family receives a letter from the Secretary of the Navy. Ask yourself if it would not be more appropriate and meaningful to that family if that letter were from the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps and acknowledged the loss of their Marine. Has not the time come for the Marine Corps to receive the recognition it has earned in war and in peace, to stand shoulder to shoulder with our Navy brothers in arms as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps?