. >> another member of the old breed was 25-year-old everett pope, born in the tiny town of milton, massachusetts>> when did you first decide you wanted to be a marine? >> that's easy. i was a senior at bodien college in maine and it was 1941, and it was obvious something was going to happen. and this guy came around the campus, wearing this blue jacket, light blue pants with a stripe down the side and i said, have i to have one of those. >> had anybody said anything at school about the likelihood of -- >> not to my knowledge, ollie. not to my knowledge. >> after graduating with honors, ray davis joined the marine corps in 1938. he had no idea he would go on to such a long and distinguished military career. as it was with so many, things changed the day pearl harbor was attacked. "war stories" spoke to him shortly before his death. >> i was in a tend. i ahead the announcement the japanese bombed pearl harbor. >> nearly two years before roosevelt met with macarthur and nimitz, marines landed on guadalcanal, starting an island-hopping campaign across the pacific. guadalcanal was the first offensive