Category Archives: shipmates and veterans
The Importance of the Navy Family
There are families and there are families. One family apart from my biological family that I think I treasure the most is my Navy family going back to when I was a Navy Brat and the friends of my parents … Continue reading
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Full Military Honors: Getting a Chance to Repay a Service done for My Family by the Navy
Last summer my dad Aviation Storekeeper Chief Carl Dundas died after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Since I wasn’t much good for anything then my boss at my last duty station Chaplain Jesse Tate contacted the Chief of Chaplains … Continue reading
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Veterans Day 2010: Counting the Cost of War
“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.” General Robert E. Lee Veterans Day had become a rather somber occasion for me over the past decade and since returning from Iraq in … Continue reading
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Too Young…Naval Medical Center Portsmouth loses another one of Its Own
Lieutenant Eric W Inge, Medical Corps, United States Navy 20 August 1979-13 February 2010 Creator, Father who first breathed In us the life that we received By thy power of thy breath restore The ill, and men with wounds of … Continue reading
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