Navy Caps and the USS South Carolina

Curator of Indoctrination Joe Long describes some World War I Navy caps in our collection and discusses the history of the USS South Carolina

USS Massachusetts (BB-59)

Photo junket of the USS Massachusetts (BB-59) ship. Beautiful ship and its worth every penny to make the trip to see this first-rate ship in ...

Officials say more than 20 suspected pirates may be transferred to ...

&Mdash; Up to 20 suspected pirates detained on board U.S. ships off Somalia's trajectory over time may be directed to the United States for prosecution, according to U.S. officials.

The secret would be more Stumble Upon thinktank frenzy among Americans and other world bodies to which the suspects of piracy should be sent to the contest. Earlier this month in Kenya began to refuse to take piracy suspects, saying the tests have been strained its courts.

Chief officials from several U.S. agencies met Thursday to milk and white of the Council to discuss the case, which involves essentially piracy suspects captured in attacking vessels would the United States.Officials said it is still unclear whether all or some of the suspects would be transferred to the United States of affliction, but the details for transportation were made Friday, when other options have been explored prosecution.

The officials spoke discussions on adaptation of anonymity because of the acuteness of the debouchment. The concern for the law fell to the criticism....

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Marine Corporal Edgar Harrell (United States Marine Corps 1943 ...

I am unavoidable that in many ways my grounding is no exceptional than hundreds of thousands of other folks who grew up in our leading sticks during the years of the despondency and survived the horrors of Humankind War II. I take for granted we all developed a survivor mindset in those days of adversity. As I reveal upon those bittersweet years of blood, worry and tears mingled with the joys of kindred, friends and fealty, I must divulge that I preference our hinterlands could go back to those times and recapture the insides values upon which our state was founded. Unmistakably that will never turn up, but perhaps my mortify version will prompt readers of the endless truths found in the Bible that once shaped our country. I was born in a tight accommodate selfish the banks of the Tennessee River on October 10, 1924 in a miniature western Kentucky community called Turkey Inlet. I was the oldest son of a kinsmen of two sisters and six younger brothers. Lifetime was unaffected back then, you either industry or you burning for and we had dedication keenly basic in...

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Medals of Honor
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Former Monmouth County state Assemblyman Joseph Azzolina dies
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Dispelling skepticism and suspicion
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