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      Tuesday      19 July              MOAA meeting                   Tuesday      17 January 2006      MOAA meeting

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Happy Easter

from your

Editorial Staff

May 22 is National Maritime Day.

      There is no better time to remember our U.S. Merchant Marine Veterans of World War II.

      The Merchant Marine has served our country honorably in all wars, particularly WW II. During WW II about a quarter million volunteer mariners delivered about 85 percent of all material used in fighting the war on all battle fronts.

      The Merchant Marine delivered locomotives, ammunition, bombs, gasoline, airplanes, troops and cigarettes to name a few things but not without a price.

      Approximately 800 ships were sunk and about 9,000 mariners were killed, 11,000 injured and 600 taken prisoner.

They were bombed, torpedoed, shot, drowned and suffered kamikaze attacks.

Robert J. Burkhart, LCDR USNR RET