res of Tripoli ... " — The Marines' Hymn Two hundred and nine years after Marines visited those shores, dispatched by President Jefferson to punish Barbary pirates for attacking U.S. vessels in the Mediterranean, Marines are again in that sea, poised to return. If they are sent ashore, their mission wi

and state.” Even earlier, while Adams was president and Jefferson Secretary of State, they jointly signed a treaty, ratified by the Senate, with the Barbary regime in Tripoli, that stated unequivocally that “the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” (empha

ian Claudius Galen (130-200 AD), who lived in the Roman Empire and studied the vagus nerve in gladiators whose injuries he treated, and also in the Barbary apes and pigs that he dissected in order to learn more about the body. Galen noted certain dysfunctions that occurred when the vagus nerve had been