Before we get started, can everyone please turn off their cell phones . Im sure your ring tones are great. Our guest is better. So we are going to do things a little differently today because this event is being broadcast. Most notably committee q a is going to bump off the bump off a microphone if not this exact microphone, very similar to this one. When we are done speaking, if you could hold your questions until i am interface with a microphone, that would be wonderful to make sure everyone can hear you and that it can be heard on broadcast. Thank you also much for coming to book people tonight. We are an independent bookstore. Your business is the single reason we exist. We could not put on events like this without you. Before we get dirty, for some energy, why do we give ourselves a round of applause . [applause] we are thrilled to be joined tonight by author and act to this, roxanne dunbarortiz. Tonight we will learn about roxannes eighth book, making us all feel lazy, an Indigen
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As The Day s military/defense reporter, I work to explain complex issues in a way the everyday citizen can understand. On any given day, I can be found poring over defense budgets, writing a feature on a local veteran or documenting the impact of deployments on those left behind. I even spent two nights aboard a submarine.
Julia Bergman
As The Day s military/defense reporter, I work to explain complex issues in a way the everyday citizen can understand. On any given day, I can be found poring over defense budgets, writing a feature on a local veteran or documenting the impact of deployments on those left behind. I even spent two nights aboard a submarine.
Connecticut celebrates its namesake submarine [The Day, New London, Conn.]
Dec. 22 The state on Tuesday celebrated its namesake boat, the USS Connecticut, which, despite being commissioned 22 years ago, remains one of most advanced and lethal attack submarines operated by the Navy.
Gov. Ned Lamont, in a proclamation, declared Tuesday “USS Connecticut Day,” honoring the 22nd birthday of the submarine, which bears the hull number SSN-22.
The submarine was commissioned Dec. 11, 1998, but recognizing the significance of its 22nd birthday and the fact that it bears the hull number SSN-22, Lamont decided to issue the proclamation on Dec. 22.
“The patriotic citizens of the State of Connecticut are incredibly proud of ‘Our Ship’ and hope and pray for the safety of the officers and crew as they patrol the waters of the world protecting freedom and democracy, while fostering the spirit of friendship of the people of the state of Connecticut,” Lamont said in issuing the proclama