The Daughters of the American Revolution has long been known as being interested in promotion of American history, and that tradition arrived in town some years ago. And next month
1862, i don t know. you have basically a motor attached to this little torpedo where it would drill itself into its enemy and the explosion, of course, would destroy it. there is also what i call the flying torpedo. you fire the cannon ball over the merrimac with just enough powder to skim the roof. that would pull the torpedo through the air right up to the merrimac s hull and once again you could destroy her that way. even from the interior department shall the census bureau, you have joseph kennedy writing in with several beautiful illustrations that the monitor needs to tow a torpedo and release it at some point in the channel and as the merrimac comes down, it would sail over this torpedo and the monitor again would discharge it from a safe distance. there is also the idea of having a torpedo on chains. you have two tugs chained together. the torpedos are in the middle. when the merrimac came down again, these two tugs would sail in the opposite direction and create a gi
and talked about how long they had not seen their loved ones. and it struck me then that they were no different really than the other vietnamese, the south vietnamese, nor for that matter, the americans. all of whom had been killing each other. they all carried snapshots of missed wives and children and mothers and fathers and they felt the same loneliness. that s how the war ended for me vietnam was our finest hour, a story that was the defining event of our lives and our profession. what a pity so many of our beloved friends died there. for many of us, covering wars will be the biggest thing we do in our lives. our central experience. and it will assure us lasting membership in one of the most exclusive clubs in the world. so we gather here this fall evening to look back over our finest hours, to recapture the excitement and camaraderie of those times to see things the way they were, to review our lives, and to celebrate each other and those beloved ones who have passed awa