Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words:
Remember 9/11? Remember the loss of the WTC and 2,750 workers, firemen, policemen and first responders? Remember how in the shattered concrete and twisted steel of the aftermath we swore to rebuild in the same place something that would defy the evil that brought the towers down? And how we called it Freedom Tower? Well,…
I still remember like it was yesterday…when the sky turned black; Of shipmates and strangers, joined by one terrible act; and what was before – is forever changed… Remember…
Eternal Father, strong to save,Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,Who biddest the mighty ocean deepIts own appointed limits keep;Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,For those in peril on the sea! CAPT Gerry Decanto, USN, Navy Captain Gerald F. DeConto of < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Alexandria, Va., was killed during the terrorist…
Several years back I had the extraordinary privilege to get to know a survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack who had been assigned to one of the gun turret crews onboard the USS Nevada (BB-36). As a junior "hinge" (O-4/LCDR) I was both captivated by the re-telling, first hand, of the accounts of that morning, and…
I remember, a sky so blue it burned your eyes to look up . . .and smoke that scarred your lungs; I remember shipmates . . . and a piece of notebook paper listing for whom the bell had tolled; We remember that for one brief moment it wasn’t New Yorkers, or Washingtonians, or businessmen…
It began as an ordinary, early spring day – teachers going about their business of teaching students; students doing what normal high school students are wont to do. At 1140, it dramatically, tragically changed with 12 students and a teacher dead and 23 others physically wounded – many more emotionally scarred. Two years, four months…
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Please note that in 2001 – The two carriers in the 5th Fleet AOR were USS Enterprise CVN 65, and her relief, USS Carl Vinson CVN 70.
With all the deployments, retirements of carriers CV 63, CV 64, CV 67, commissioning of new carriers CVN 76 and CVN 77, yard periods, RCOH’s, please note this:
10 years later – 2011 – It was USS Enterprise and USS Carl Vinson in the 5th Fleet AOR. Justice for the sailors who began the long war on terror.
Wharf Rat:
An excellent point and also a certain degree of symmetry, eh?
w/r, SJS
absolutely, incredible coincidence, and I like the symmetry word. That makes sense and all is right with the world.