Tag: Cold War
The Day Harry Truman Almost Killed the Navy
Happy Casimir Pulaski Day
Another year, another Navy Birthday
I need your help… was your Navy experience a family thing? If so, how?
I can’t remember a time in my life that the Navy wasn’t part of my family. My Dad served in World War 2 and my Grandpa Mac served in World War 1. I joined at 17 and later was joined by my little brother on the USS San Francisco. Tom’s son and my nephew Artie […]
Read More I need your help… was your Navy experience a family thing? If so, how?Remembering the 637 Boats
October 4, 1957:
“There are men working in the sail… do not raise, lower, rotate or radiate from any mast or antennae… there are men working in the sail!”
As we wait for Columbia to be finished and brought on line, this question still remains
The Beginning of a New Era – September 30, 1954
In the beginning… I was born in 1954 in the Mon Valley area. That area is where the Monongahela River winds through the of western Pennsylvania. The area was famous for the many steel mills and coal mines and the air growing up was always smokey and had distinct odors depending on which way […]
Read More The Beginning of a New Era – September 30, 1954
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