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Jan 062015
Jan 032015
Photographs by Ben Loder (click on thumbnail to enlarge then scroll through all pictures)
Dec 312014
New Year’s Post on USS ORLECK DD 886 Sunday, 1 January 1967 Moored to the HENDERSON, portside to Berth sixteen in Long Beach, a great deal to do. MASON is starboard, her lines smart and tight, SOPA COMMINPAC, we’re ready to fight. Readiness Condition is number Five, YOKE is set , hopefully to keep us [Read more…]
Dec 292014
All of those speaking received a similar award. John got his award, not because he was there, but because of what it says on the document. John and Sandy are in the middle of building their house in the State of Washington and could not come. I wanted you all to see this. We are [Read more…]
Dec 292014
Kimberly Hubbard Resolution
Dec 252014
Helen Anderson Glass is a 92 year young NAVY WAVE. She is also a fine poet and true patriot. She is now a friend of mine and I am very proud of that. She has a servant attitude and her life is marked by all the voluntary service she has provided to those in our [Read more…]
Dec 242014
Christmas Eve is kind of cool when you get calls from folks you had not heard from for a while and from folks that you are in regular contact with. Both give you good feelings and especially when one shares something with you that opens the door to knowing another special person. That is what [Read more…]