Category Archives: shipmates and veterans
The Fallen: Remembering the Human Cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Today I read through and looked at the pictures of every American service member to die in harm’s way since last Memorial Day in this week’s Navy Times. When I looked at those pictures of men and women, officers and … Continue reading
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Too Young: In Memory Commander Marsha Hanly, Nurse Corps US Navy
LCDR Marsha Hanly caring for a patient in the ICU of the USNS Comfort “Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter’s or … Continue reading
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A Memorial Service for HM1 David Graney and the End of a Long Week
This has been a busy week. It began with an unexpected emergency to baptize the grandchild of a dear friend injured in a terrible household accident. I drove from North Carolina on Sunday to Virginia Beach and returned Monday evening. … Continue reading
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Thoughts after a Walk on the Beach: The Tapestry of Navy Life and Relationships
I walked Molly down to the beach tonight as she insists on every night that it is not raining. In the dark sky the stars twinkled and I pondered the events of the past few days. The roar of the … Continue reading
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I Just Want to Thank Everyone that made this Night Necessary
I think that Yogi Berra said it the best when thanking people inSt. Louis when the city decided to honor him when the Yankees came into town in 1947. He meant to say “I just want to thank everyone that … Continue reading
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A Physically Painful Thursday Night in DC: Dinner with a Classmate and watching Our Government Implode
I took this picture and then…. I have spent most of the day in some bad physical pain. Last night while walking around the National Mall taking pictures I hurt myself. I was walking from the Washington Monument toward the … Continue reading
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Memorial Day 2011: Counting the Cost of War and Remembering its Brotherhood
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother…” William Shakespeare “Henry V” “Heroism is latent in every human soul – However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) … Continue reading
The Week before Armed Forces Day 2011
Armed Forces Day is a holiday, sort of. It is an official holiday but no-one gets a day of work off for it. It is a holiday where we as a nation honor those serving in the Armed Forces. Other … Continue reading
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