This video is of Staff Sgt. Lawrence Dean II, an instructor with the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., has been identified as the poetic Marine. The video clip was filmed a year ago on a cell phone after one of his students asked him for help explaining to his family why he was joining the Corps and risking being sent off to war. In the midst of the student’s final room inspection, he performed the spoken-word poem, which many mistakenly refer to as rap, he said. Dean said he wrote the inspirational poem after his grandmother asked him whether he would go to war if called. “The best thing I could come up with to explain it to her was the poem ‘She Called,’ he said.