Lisa wrote this a month before she left Japan and had it on her MySpace page, she called it "My life in a nut shell"

For those of you that have known me before the marine corps and those of you that I've met along the way, thanks for being there... These last four years have made such an impact on my world that I can't even think about where I would be without them. I wonder if my outlook on life would be the same and if I would have found out the things I have about myself had it not been for the things I've experienced. . Those that have known me a long time know that I was a spoiled brat back in the day and that I was a daddy's girl.. I've learned that not everything is given to u and the one thing that I want seems to be out of my reach. I've come to realize that I have to work for the things that I desire and even those things that I put my all in to don't always work out. That has been a hard thing for me to grasp considering I grew up getting whatever I wanted. Some of my friends on here are very disappointed in the woman that I've become. Although they won't admit it, I can tell by their actions over the last four years. I have lost my faith that some of you helped me find in the first place, I've experienced things that I shouldn't have until I was married, and I've lost contact with some of my very closest friends.. but thank you to those of you that have made an effort to stay in my life regardless if I'm stateside or over here in Japan. Because regardless of what anyone else may think I've been through a lot and have grew up in so many ways. I love the Marine Corps and I would never take back joining. To all of you that I've met along the way, thank you for helping me realize the ups and downs of growing up and catching me when I've fallen. To one of my best friends, peanut (sorry but not u pappy), I love u and always will, thank u for helping me become the woman I am.. I am excited to start my life without the marines and see all of you back home but I'm going to miss all of you I've met along the way too.. So, with a month left.. I'm starting my goodbyes today. .

The following are Thoughts and Quotes taken from Lisa's stuff that we would like to share, some are written by her, other's just remembered.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,

enough trials to make you strong,

enough sorrow to keep you human,

enough hope to make you happy.

"What is right is not always popular, what is popular is not always right."

"Most people are other people.  Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - Oscar Wilde -

"Marines don't die, they just go to heaven and regroup."
'Can delegate authority but can't delegate responsibility.'

'Don't think less of yourself.....just think of yourself less.'

"No one falls in love by choice, it's by chance.  No one stays in love by chance, its by work.  No one falls out of love by chance, it's by choice."
The Golden Chain of Friendship
 
Friendship is a Golden Chain,
The links are friends so dear,
And like a rare and precious jewel
It's treasured more each year...
It's clasped together firmly
With a love that's deep and true,
And it's rich with happy memories
And fond recollections, too...
 
Time can't destroy its beauty
For, as long as memory lives,
Years can't erase the pleasure
That the joy of friendship gives...
For friendship is a priceless gift
That can't be bought or sold,
But to have an understanding friend
is worth far more than gold...
And the Golden Chain of Friendship
Is a strong and blessed tie
Binding kindred hearts together
As the years go passing by.
 
~ By Helen Steiner Rice
Success is how high you bounce once you've hit rock bottom - Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
"People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the others hand will always be there."
"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance."
 
 

 

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