<p><span class="deck">The Corps is supposed to be tough, and is. This often confounds its enemies and sometimes irritates the nation’s other services</span></p>
<p>The year was 1814, and within three weeks our “young and not always wise” nation suffered acute shame and astonishing victory</p>
<p>Tall ships and U.S. Navy vessels sailed into Baltimore Harbor past Fort McHenry to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812.</p>
