Big bravo zulu
To: artichokegrower
My dad...
Liberty Ships
1942 - 1945
Atlantic and Pacific
2 posted on
05/30/2016 8:28:10 AM PDT by
Repeal The 17th
(I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
To: artichokegrower
3 posted on
05/30/2016 8:32:05 AM PDT by
barmag25
To: artichokegrower
Thanks for posting. My dad was a merchant marine in the Pacific and spent time in the Philippines and China. He went through some scary stuff, he told me, but the worst was getting caught in a big storm and everyone on the boat was saying their final prayers.
4 posted on
05/30/2016 8:35:34 AM PDT by
Rusty0604
To: artichokegrower
I recently read a book about the siege of Malta and the critical efforts of the Merchant Marines who helped to save that island. Unsung heroes indeed!
5 posted on
05/30/2016 8:40:29 AM PDT by
Michael.SF.
(That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
To: artichokegrower
6 posted on
05/30/2016 8:42:38 AM PDT by
Pelham
(Barack Obama. When being bad is not enough and only evil will do)
To: artichokegrower
Big bravo Zulu Amateurs study strategy or tactics; professionals study logistics. Beans, bullets, repair parts, and fuel move military forces forward and the lack of same stops them in their tracks.
7 posted on
05/30/2016 8:54:01 AM PDT by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: artichokegrower
Saluting my passed uncle.
To: artichokegrower
My son just got accepted to the USMMA Class of 2020!!!
9 posted on
05/30/2016 8:58:28 AM PDT by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: artichokegrower
My uncle was KIA with the MM. His memorial is
here.
10 posted on
05/30/2016 9:19:26 AM PDT by
Phlap
(REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
To: artichokegrower
During WWII we had the largest merchant marine in the world. Today thanks to our politicians who have legislated it and regulated it we have one of the smallest.
11 posted on
05/30/2016 9:28:55 AM PDT by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: artichokegrower
My dad.
Liberty Ship.
Lafcadio Hearn
Oil tanker.
RIP, Dad.
12 posted on
05/30/2016 9:33:07 AM PDT by
sima_yi
( Reporting live from the far North)
To: artichokegrower
Back in the 50's they were scrapping Liberty Ships by the dozens - my Dad (WWII Navy) was a naval architect and the shipyard he worked at in Seattle had several to dismantle. Employees were allowed to take any furniture they wanted, so he got the purser's desk and chest of drawers, plus the 1st Mate's bunk. He sold the bunk but I now have the other two items.
I've searched the web for anything similar with no success.
14 posted on
05/30/2016 11:18:56 AM PDT by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: artichokegrower
My father was one. He was short so none of the services would accept him but this “new” one did. He served on quite a few ships throughout the war. FDR was supposed to make them Veterans but it never happened until 1987, the year he died. No GI Bill, etc. Made him so angry. His brothers and all his friends were able to buy houses with the GI bill, but not him.
I was able to sail around San Francisco Bay on the USS Jeremiah O’Brien, which is one of the few Liberty Ships left and is docked as a tourist attraction at Fisherman’s Wharf there, about 15 years ago. Very nostalgic for me.
15 posted on
05/30/2016 12:06:30 PM PDT by
tinamina
To: artichokegrower
I dated a girl whose dad was a merchant marine. He was still angry about being denied admission to a USO show.
16 posted on
05/30/2016 1:15:37 PM PDT by
Spok
("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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