Tag: Harry
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Raising Anchor: Seaman Recruit Harry Petersen Reports For Duty
Seaman Recruit Harry Petersen with his proud father, minutes after being sworn in. (That’s Harry on the left.) After two tentative reporting dates came and went, Harry shipped out today following a brief swearing-in ceremony at Fort Hamilton, near the base of the Verrazano Bridge in Brooklyn. Also there to see Harry off were the […]
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“Easter SEALs” Rescue Captain, Kill Pirates; More to Come
Best possible ending: Three dead pirates, no good guys hurt, one hero captain survives after winning his crew’s freedom by offering himself as a hostage. On Easter Sunday, no less. (I wish I had thought of Easter SEALs!) Shades of United Airlines Flight 93, as the American crew apparently fought back and retook the Maersk […]
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Seaman Recruit Harry Kirk Petersen, United States Navy
The other day I sat in a restaurant and watched my son become a man. Harry recently bailed out of college. He was in the third year of a five-year construction management program at Drexel University in Philadelphia, and he hated the place. He had been working at the Philadelphia Housing Authority through Drexel’s co-op […]