Tonk Memorial Coast Guard Bump
Posted on 06/19/2008 3:27:56 PM PDT by Uncle Ralph
For your lunchtime reading and viewing: Popular Mechanics editor-in-chief James Meigs was kind enough to send an advance copy of the magazine’s July 2008 issue. I can’t put it down. The cover story is about an amazing Coast Guard rescue effort in March, when the Alaska Ranger ship sank.
Read all about it and watch video here.
As an aside, the Coast Guard cutter Munro is named after Coast Guard signalman and Medal of Honor recipient Douglas Munro, whose bravery I wrote about while working at the Seattle Times and recounted here. Amazing stories of heroism, then and now.
Want to see some?
Go to Flickr: Semper Paratus — The U.S. Coast Guard
Tonk Memorial Coast Guard Bump
WOW! America’s finest! BTTT!
and FR’s finest Brian J. Marotta (R.I.P.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/memorial/memorial.htm
Amazing, brave heroes!
“You have to go out. You don’t have to come back.”
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