THE GRADUATE

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
— Orrin Hatch

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
— Erma Bombeck



On Friday, Daniel graduated from MCRD — Marine Corps boot camp. Although he has officially been a Marine for a week, it was the culmination of 13 weeks of change. From boyhood to manhood, civilian to warrior, dream to reality.
CONGRATULATIONS PFC DANIEL WRIGHTHOUSE, UNITED STATES MARINE

Here are a few photos from graduation of 3rd Battalion, Mike Co. I'd post video but for some reason the hotel wireless won't let me.