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...
by alan | Feb 3, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
Nina Odele Women have had a continuous and growing presence in the U.S. Navy throughout the 20th and into the 21st century. Women worked as nurses for the Navy as early as the American Civil War. The United States Navy Nurse Corps was officially established in...
by alan | Jan 24, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
By A. R. Graham The wealthy guests of John D. Spreckels’ once went riding across North Island hunting jackrabbits. The land was then separated from Coronado by the ‘Spanish Bight’, a shallow channel that ran from the Pacific Ocean to the bay. Used in the late 19th...
by alan | Feb 2, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
Admiral George Stephen Morrison George Stephen Morrison was a Rear Admiral and naval aviator in the United States Navy. Morrison was commander of the U. S. naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 1964. He was the father of Jim...
