LeRoy Pope Walker, the first secretary of war for the newly declared Confederate States of America, predicted that all the blood spilled as a result of secession could be cleaned
Good morning, its Friday, May 28, 2021, the day of the week when I reprise quotations intended to be uplifting or educational. Todays concerns Memorial.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Coast Guard Patrol Boat Marion prepares to set sail from Boston on a scientific expedition to waters between Labrador and Greenland, July 11, 1928. (U.S. Coast Guard file photo)
Coast Guard involved in Prohibition, wars during its history
By U.S. Coast Guard Public Affairs
The Coast Guard’s history dates as far back as the first lighthouse built in America in 1716 at Little Brewster Island, Boston, Massachusetts.
Though the Navy and Marines were founded in 1775, the predecessor to today’s Coast Guard, the Revenue Service, came into being Aug. 4, 1790, when President George Washington signed the Tariff Act, a bill Congress passed that had been written and submitted by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
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It’s time for another installment of “Places you should go before you can’t tell a presidential executive order document from one of your White House German shepherd’s training pads.” Yes, recently my wife and three teenage daughters took a week-long family trip to Charleston, South Carolina also known as “The city where every meal will cost you at least two C-notes.”
Because we enjoy turning our buns into geological formations, we drove the entire 14-hour trip from East Texas to downtown Charleston, stopping only occasionally to sample the delights of various Southern powder rooms, usually in rural gas stations tempting us with boiled peanuts and pickles in a bag.