THE LAST MAN COMMITTEE 

John Ferguson, Chairman

Robert Morton

  ROBERT K.MORTON------------2/G 

    Robert was six  years old when his parents were separated and he began to be passed to one foster home to another.   When he finally became old enough in his own mind he discovered that he had to have a birth certificate in order to get into the Marines.  Since he did not have one he worked out a deal with his landlady, who agreed to sign for him acting as his mother. In return Robert agreed to sign over his $10,000 GI insurance to her. 

Robert volunteered for the Raiders and was accepted as a member of  the 2^nd Marine Raiders and was placed in “G” company. He participated in the Bouganville operation. During that operation he was shot in the jaw and his lower jaw was broken in three places. They had to wire his jaw shut and according to Robert, that was the longest that they were able to keep him quite. The worse six weeks of his life.  After his recuperation he rejoined his unit and participated in Guam and Okinawa operations. 

Robert did not get his fill of the Marine life when the war ended so he reenlisted and became a Drill Instructor at Parris Island. After that tour of duty was completed he was assigned to the recruiting where he had to take a different slant on life and start being nice to the recruits and explain nicely why it was to their advantage to become part of the Marines. 

I received Robert’s picture while working on this directory and could hardly believe I was looking at a 70 plus year old marine. To me after looking in a mirror he looked more like a 55 year old. He swears that I am mistaken and he attributes his good looks to the fact that he works out hard and has a secret formula based on a Zinc compound that keeps him young. 

Robert has been married to his wife Virginia for over 46 years and has two sons and a daughter. He didn’t say anything about grand children.

I have corresponded several times with Robert and feel that he is a person that I would like to know better,  (John Ferguson)

P.S.   Robert  in the  past has done  a lot of flying but they clipped his wings and started him in on high blood pressure medication, I can relate to that since I also was grounded for the same reason.