By Old Salt Coffee Company Two hundred and fifty years ago, a ragtag band of revolutionaries looked across the Atlantic at the world’s most powerful empire — Great Britain — and said, “Aye, we’ll take them on.” On October 13,...
On the last Sunday of September, our Nation observes Gold Star Mother’s and Family’s Day. It’s a day set aside not for parades or celebrations, but for quiet remembrance. A day to honor the mothers and families who have borne the...
Every September, we pause to mark POW/MIA Recognition Day. It’s not a holiday of fireworks or parades — it’s a solemn day of memory and promise. A promise that we, as a Nation and as Sailors, will never forget those who...
A Sailor’s journey from the PXO classroom to Afghanistan, and how a generation stood the watch. Every generation has a moment burned into memory. For our grandparents, it was Pearl Harbor. For our parents, perhaps the day man walked on...
Eighty years ago, the world finally exhaled. After six long years of global conflict, after millions of lives lost and oceans crossed in steel-gray convoys, the guns went silent and Sailors dreamed of nothing more than a hot cup of...
The USS NEW JERSEY. Was steaming at high speed going thru the Triangle. I and 20 other Sailors We're on main deck. Looking at All the Strange Things. Multi color object's coming up from the dark waters There was something...
My Mom swerved as a wave in ww2 and the Korean War. She adored her time in service. Many family road trips took place in either San Diego or San Francisco. The memories of her navy days were so wonderful...
hello, i sailed in the merchant Marine for 9 years. one of the things I remember, were the morning and afternoon coffee breaks. The coffee had better be ready by the time the deck and engine guys got to the...
Russell Johnson, a decorated World War Two veteran who was a bombardier on a B-24 Liberator shot down over the Philippines in 1945, played "The Professor"with six other castaways on a deserted Island in the comedy TV series "Gilligan's Island".
My Dad served 12 years on the USS New Jersey ,I went Army , I was a forward lookout “ LRRP Ranger” in South Vietnam .. around the end of 1968 I was watching NVA crossing the DMZ , forming...
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Drop anchor, pull up a chair, grab your mug of old salt coffee and read the stories our shipmates have logged. These are the saltiest of sea stories, straight from the crew.
