In the spirit of Memorial day-A history
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gafinfanSupporterOPMay 26, 2009, 12:53 AM
A history of the US Navy and President George Washington.
How the Navy honors George Washington, our CNC during the war for our Independence as well as the First President of the United States Of America.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq51-1.htm
Commodore Charles Morris, United States Navy, related the earliest known account of this ceremony. In May of 1801, three men-of-war of the U.S. Navy passed up the Potomac River to the new Navy Yard in the District of Columbia.
This is the only thing I’ve learned: There’s only us. There’s no them. Despots and authoritarians need to make a “them” to have a straw man whom you are against. If you need to make an enemy of “them,” you’ve lost the spirit of us. - Ken Burns of PBS