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Contributed by Ron Russell Members of the Marine Corps League join in camaraderie and fellowship for the purpose of preserving the traditions and promoting the interests of the United States Marine Corps, banding together those who are now serving in the United States Marine Corps and those honorably discharged from that service. In early 2000, while shopping in a local grocery store, two Marines, Bill Weidner and Jack Simms, both World War II veterans, met and started talking about the number of Marines they each knew in the Auburn-Opelika area. They decided to form a Marine Corps League chapter in Lee County and invited all Marines they knew to a meeting. Soon a Detachment was formed, and it was officially chartered on Nov. 14, 2000, with Weidner as the first Detachment Commandant. ....