After serving 31 years in the Marine Corps, Marion Carcirieri, simply known as Cass, served an additional 45 years as a Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) employee.
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, only two percent are still alive today. Retired U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Marion Carcirieri is among them.
Not only did Carcirieri, or “Cass” as he is known, serve with the 6th Marine Division in the Pacific during World War II, but he also fought in the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
He was wounded just once.
“It’s a miracle I made it through all of them,” Carcirieri said, who joined the Marine Corps when he was not yet even 17 years old.