The HRC complex is named in honor of Lieutenant General Timothy Maude, who was killed at the Pentagon on 9-11. A fire truck that was heavily damaged while fighting the blaze at the Pentagon is now on display at the Patton Museum.
The Mikasa was Admiral Togo's flagship during the Battle of Tsushima, and a young future-Admiral Yamamoto served onboard and was wounded during the battle.
After WW2 the Soviets wanted the Mikasa as war reparations, but Nimitz refused.
I remember a video from Iraq last year where a group of militia were in a firefight with some ISIS thugs. Most of the militiamen were young and employed the spray and pray method of attack. But there was a gray-beard with them who was taking his time, identifying targets, and taking aimed shots.
I was just talking about that with one of my managers earlier today. He was born and raised in the south side of Chicago, but managed to get out thanks to a football scholarship. He knew that he wasn't good enough to go pro, so he concentrated on his classes and got a degree in business management.
He's lived in rural Kentucky for the past fifteen years, and has no intention of ever going back to Chicago. If his folks want to see their grandkids, they have to come down here, for he refuses to put his wife and kids in danger by visiting the old neighborhood.
Also located at Coronado is the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. The cemetery was dedicated in 1932, but US warriors had been buried there as far back as 1905, when a number of casualties from the gunboat USS Bennington were buried there.
The gunboat had been preparing to head to sea to assist a disabled warship (the monitor Wyoming) when her boilers exploded, killing 66 sailors and injuring over 100 more. The ship was so badly damaged that she had to be grounded to keep her from sinking and she was soon retired and sold for scrap.
In 1908 a monument was erected in memory of those lost in the disaster.
Can you imagine the frothing at the mouth that Piers Morgan would be doing if he was still at CNN? The liberals cannot comprehend anyone standing up to the federal government and claiming their individual rights and freedoms.
Thankfully cooler heads prevailed. But what is going to happen the next time something like this occurs? All it takes is one nervous, or angry, person and the whole nation will go up in flames.