Thank you for your service.

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Navy Day on October 27 may be “unofficial” at headquarters, but it remains relevant to loyal Navy supporters who enthusiastically celebrate the day year after year. Navy Day appears on the calendar exactly two weeks after the United States Navy celebrates its officially observed birthday on October 13. With two days hailing the men and women of the U.S. Navy, the month of October is a big deal for members of the armed forces who serve in the naval warfare branch of the U.S. military.

Navy Day was first celebrated in 1922 by the Navy League of the United States, a civilian nonprofit organization, as a day to pay tribute to the men and women we call sailors. At the time, October 27 was considered by many to be the birthday of the United States Navy, based on a document presented to the Continent Congress on this date in 1775 that supported the purchase of a fleet of merchant ships to form an American colonial navy. October 27 also happens to be the birthday of one of the Navy’s most ardent supporters, President Theodore Roosevelt, who once served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and had supported a Navy Day.

 

 

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I've mentioned our trip to New York State that we took a month or so ago.  One of the more sobering part of our trip was touring USS The Sullivans.  It is a decommissioned war ship named in honor of the five brothers that serve in WW II and all five perished when their ship sank.  This ship was one of the early ones that carried nuclear warheads.  A whole section was off limits to most of the men onboard because of security.  Don't you know the sailors onboard surmised as to what was so classified that they weren't allowed to pass into that area?  

 

Below is a picture of a missile on a track that would have pulled it forward where it would be armed either conventual or nuclear warhead.  There were 48 of  these missiles on board.

 

The other picture is of a display of items used for damage control.   The cork looking item behind the letter "E" was to be driven into a hole of the ship in the event a shell pierced the hull. 

 

 The Sullivans can be seen at the Buffalo Naval Park. 

 

May God Bless those who protect us where ever they may be.