Check the guns on the deck below the bridge. I think the Navy sailors of 1921 would not have surrendered to a bunch of Iranian peckerheads without a fight.
To: artichokegrower
and they’re building a statue of the event.
dying of shame.
2 posted on
03/23/2016 7:34:51 PM PDT by
dp0622
To: artichokegrower
3 posted on
03/23/2016 7:37:18 PM PDT by
rineaux
(It's not a lie, it's Ted Truth.)
To: artichokegrower
I notice the crew was integrated. Perhaps those men were cooks, or stewards; or maybe the color bar wasn’t quite so absolute as we have been led to think?
To: artichokegrower
Wasn’t it Wilson who segregated the military after slow progress made over the years after the civil war? Just a guess, but the picture with black seamen may have been before the Wilson Presidency?
To: artichokegrower
lot of crew for such a small boat. crowded
To: artichokegrower
I assume the ship went down with all hands?
Leni
8 posted on
03/23/2016 9:29:13 PM PDT by
MinuteGal
To: artichokegrower
9 posted on
03/24/2016 6:14:20 AM PDT by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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