by alan | Jan 22, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
By Kimberley Graham Several years ago, when our children were very young, there was an adorable, friendly couple who lived a few doors down from us: Mandy ‘n’ Randy. Mandy was a civil engineer and Randy in flight command with the Navy. We lived happily near each...
by alan | Jan 19, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
Submitted by Ray Fletcher “Good Ole Days” The USS Constitution (Old Ironsides), as a combat vessel, carried 48,600 gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 officers and men. This was sufficient to last six months of sustained operations at sea. She...
by alan | Jan 31, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
By Nina Odele I’m proud to be a Coronado resident. I love my Crown City and have been fortunate enough to live here most of my life. When I was a young girl in the 1960s, Coronado was all about the Navy. As it should be! Many of my childhood friends’ dads...
by alan | Jan 17, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
By Al Graham I have not heard a word from my friend Silent since he was deployed in August. He is in a hostile land defending his country, and in particular, the lives of those in combat. He has fought many a fray; he fought and he won. He is called when our troops...
by alan | Feb 11, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
By Kimberley (Dill) Graham On November 18, 1955, I was delivered into the arms of a stellar beauty queen and a dashing young medical student in the fair city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the day, my mother and I performed typical 1950s housewife chores and...
by alan | Jan 27, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
In loving memory of my father, Max LeVine, a Pearl Harbor Survivor. These Pearl Harbor photos were taken from a sailor who was on the USS Quapaw ATF-110. They were found in an old Brownie camera in a foot locker and just recently taken to be developed. What quality...
