Olizard Harlu

Lieutenant Olizard Harlu was a male}} who served in the  [[Republic Marines|Marines during the years surrounding the . A musician and composer, he was a member of the Marine Corps Band where he was one of several auxiliary bandmasters. Stationed on  during and after the  rebellion, he composed a hymn in remembrance of a friend of his who had been killed during the fighting.

Sergeant Mulkaehey, as the anthem was called, was intended to be sung in an old, drawling dialect of that most Humans would at first be unable to fully comprehend. It caught on amongst the Marine Corps, so that by the time of the, the tune had become the official Marine Corps Hymn.