“ All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along. Karen Chamberlain
“ On June 12, 1775 the Rhode Island Assembly commissioned armed ships to fight the British Navy. That Fall on October 13, 1775 the Second Continual Congress established the United States Navy marking th… Captain Hank Bracker
“ The history of sea power is largely, though by no means solely, a narrative of contests between nations, of mutual rivalries, of violence frequently culminating in war. The profound influence of sea c… Alfred Thayer Mahan
“ When the big German guns at Calais fired on us, we realized, we had been strafed by Spitfires from the RAF during working up exercises for the invasion, accidentally attacked by the USN off Normandy a… Roger Litwiller
