[ConorMacNessa]

SandRat, USNA Annapolis Md is a place that carries great significance for me. In the mid-1960's my Uncle Maj. Jack Dowd, USA Ret. was Superintendent of the U.S. National Cemetery in Annapolis. When i got my driver's license in 1966, I headed up there almost every weekend. my cousin John and I assisted in parking cars on Saturdays in Fall at the then newly constructed Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, garnering entry into the stadium for games after about the first quarter.

John and I had other adventures on Academy grounds as well. We were 18 years old at the time and I was legal to buy beer and wine in D.C. I used to drive down Georgia Avenue near Walter Reed to the Cork and Bottle, load up the trunk of my '65 VW Bug with beer and head up the road to Annapolis.

We would go over to the Naval Academy at nightfall - we were granted entry by virtue of our military dependent ID cards - and set up under the footbridge that crossed College Creek. There we would drink beer and stick our nets into the water to snag blue crabs - returning to the Lodge at the Cemetery in the early hours of the morning, we would importune my Aunt Virginia (one of the most elegant ladies it has ever been my honor to know) to steam the crabs and we would have a morning crab feast. Good times, good people. Would that I could pass a word with them now!

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces guarding our country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

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Maryland Blue Crabs!

mmm mmm mmm

[ExTexasRedhead]

Awesome video today on www.welcomehomeblog.com. Here’s the link:

http://welcomehomeblog.com/2016/11/07/amy-vet-surprised-during-giants-game-with-lifesaving-pts-service-dog/