In the long and storied history of the United States Navy, there have been only four men whoattained to the five-star rank of Fleet Admiral. All were Naval Academy graduates from a timewhen that was probably a requirement for attaining the rank of Admiral. What I have beenable to uncover from some modest research was […]

On 30 June 1965, approximately 1300 young men were inducted into the United States Naval Academy class of 1969.  We came from all over the country, some with a year or two of college experience, but most right out of high school.  Some were the sons Academy graduates, more from career Navy families, many the

In the summer of 2020, in the height of a global pandemic, an assault on the United States started in a number of cities across the United States. Burning, looting, murders, often without lawful intervention, were common threads. But those places were “somewhere else”, not here where we lived. Unless you lived there. Here where