Happy Birthday US Navy! Today the Navy celebrates 235 years of tradition unmarred by progress as we used to say… Well, not really… 🙂 The Navy continues to meet new and evolving challenges in an ever changing world environment, often … Continue reading
Category Archives: honoring our military
I was going to write about what’s going on around us right now, but everything I put on paper was negative, so I decided to put something positive up… Most if not all of you have probably never heard of … Continue reading
We’ve all, well most of us, have seen the movie, The Bridges at Toko-Ri. Many people do not know the ‘backstory’ of what really happened, nor how James Michener came to write the story in the first place… Here then … Continue reading
With no disrespect intended to the Jackson family, this reveals the shallowness of our value system in this country. This puts things into perspective: While the focus today, tomorrow and for the next God-knows-how-many-days will be the death of a … Continue reading
On October 1, 2008, Commander, Submarine Forces Pacific Fleet, Rear Adm. Douglas McAneny announced that a sunken vessel off the coast of the Aleutian Islands is in fact the World War II submarine USS Grunion (SS 216). 66 years after … Continue reading
Since school is restarting now, I thought this would be appropriate, since there will be kids missing their fathers again this year, who gave their lives in service to our country. Daddy’s poem- Author unknown from Fay T. Her hair … Continue reading
Please drop over the QandO and read 9 Warriors. This is the rest of the story about what happened to the Third Herd last month in Afganistan…h/t McQ … Continue reading
If this does not get your attention, I don’t know what will… This Picture is Worth a Million Words… We truly take a lot for granted. Forget the football ‘heroes’ and movie ‘stars’. Pass this on so that all may … Continue reading
Continuing the tone of my last few posts, yet again another mostly unknown and uncovered (at least by MSM) honoring of our troops. By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAYMcClatchy NewspapersOver the last 12 months, 1,042 soldiers, Marines, sailors and Air Force personnel … Continue reading
James E. (Bull) Williams… 20 year Navy man, enlisted at 16, retired on 20. Volunteered to go to Viet Nam with 19 years in, because he knew small boats and thought he might pass that along to his shipmates and … Continue reading