Even if you have lived in a place a long time, as I have in Corpus Christi, there are always new things to discover and to experience. One of those new experiences for me recently was witnessing a "winging ceremony" at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. The military has a very large presence in Corpus Christi, and it has had it for a very long time. You might say that the history of modern day Corpus Christi begins with the arrival of Gen. Zachary Taylor and the encampment of his troops here in 1845. The military economy, on which the...