The days when a sailor was a sailor. See:A Sailor Ain’t a Sailor Anymore
Freepers, please go to the Daily Mail web page and down-vote the anti-American comments.
I like the American sailors with the Duck Commander beards!
Thanks. I had a shirt-tail relative who fought in that War, and made it back ok.
Just read the comments under the article...
Brits and Spaniards both badmouthing the USA....
That’s fine...continue doing this until you need our help...
THEN we are good and benevolent..
You damn bunch of hypocrits!!!!!!
We inherited a stereopticon and some of the “slides” that it uses. They include a series from the Philippines in this war, mostly hospital shots. good insight into a war we don’t think about much.
My wife’s grandfather was 15 when he ran away from home and joined the US Navy.
He was there. We have letters addressed to him with “Spanish-American War Veteran’s Association” letterhead on them.
I am distantly related to Adm. George Dewey. I believe his flagship the USS Olympia is still afloat in Philadelphia.
In the link article, anyone notice in the background of the sixth picture of the Suez Canal where the Spanish fleet is you can see in the distance a huge 3 stack luxury liner? It looks to have the shape of a White Star Line liner. Look closely.