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 | Sep 23, 2010 | Keeping the Faith, Premier Issue, Special Military Issue
By George Koen I’m a’going salmon fishing with my friend up north. I left about 4:30 in the morning from San Diego. My plane landed in Los Angeles about an hour and a half later. After a short layover, we headed to Arcata – actually, it was McKinleyville Airport in...
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...
