by alan | Feb 5, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
“Wings of Gold: Coronado and Naval Aviation Museum Exhibit Marks 100th Anniversary” In early 1911, the United States Navy asked pioneer aviator Glenn Curtiss to train one its officers to fly. Curtiss chose a sandy, scrub-covered island in San Diego Bay as...
by alan | Jan 20, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
The first Sunday of November 2003, a group of local activists erected 340 wooden crosses on the beach immediately west of Stearns Wharf in the beautiful seaside community of Santa Barbara, California. The wooden crosses marked the deaths of U.S. servicemen and...
by alan | Jan 30, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
By Al Graham There are many war memorials in San Diego, but there are many more that have been forgotten, yet they still exist. Up until last year, there was no war museum in the county. So, when Captain Will Hays USN retired, heard that an old church had become...
by alan | Jan 21, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
By A. R. Graham At the gas station on Orange Avenue in Coronado, California hangs a lonely and badly tattered black and white flag. It bears an image of an American soldier, head bowed with a Vietnamese prison guard tower in the background. The mournful letters...
by alan | Jan 18, 2011 | Current Issue, past issue, Special Military Issue
By Nina Odele Coronado was such a magical place to grow up. Of course, as little kids we didn’t know that back in the 60s a nd 70s. We thought all kids everywhere had a whole Island Paradise to play in. Things were mostly on the quiet side here in our, then,...
