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Giving Thanks for Our Country and Those Who Defend It
3 comments on Giving Thanks for Our Country and Those Who Defend ItStay safe, Son, as you return from your final deployment and rejoin your bride and stepson.
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“Sarge” Got Married — Now the Web Goddess and I Are Step-Grandparents!
On a brilliant sunny Saturday afternoon in Bremerton, across Puget Sound from Seattle, a handsome Navy petty officer and a lovely schoolteacher pledged to love and honor each other forevermore, as they became husband and…
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RIMPAC! Or, Here’s Why It’s Dangerous Even to JOKE About Yelling “Fire” in a Crowded Theater
Don’t publish the sailing time of troop ships. No-brainer, right? But what if the publisher is the Navy itself?
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Happy Birthday America!
Inspired by the Episcopal Collect for Independence Day, I’m grateful for the patriots who lit the torch of freedom for nations then unborn, and for the troops (and one sailor in particular) who sacrifice to…
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Reporter Has Front-Row Seat as Navy Rescues Iranian Ship from Pirates
If you read only one news article today, you must read the dramatic NY Times account of the U.S. Navy’s rescue of Iranians from Somali pirates. As luck would have it, a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter…
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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…