2014 USS FORRESTAL - FATHERS DAY Washington DC
Created: 6/15/2014
“FATHER’S DAY 2014”
TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN MEN DIED WHILE SERVING ABOARD USS FORRESTAL DURING HER THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS OF SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY.
ABOVE ON THIS GRANITE PANEL ARE THE NAMES OF ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE USS FORRESTAL MEN WHO DIED ON 29 JULY 1967 SERVING THEIR COUNTRY OFF THE COAST OF NORTH VIETNAM.
SOME OF THESE MEN WERE FATHERS.
MANY WERE NOT.
SOME OF THESE MEN HAD EXPERIENCED THE PLEASURES AND JOYS OF FATHERHOOD.
MANY OF THESE YOUNG MEN HAD NOT.
THESE FLOWERS ARE FOR ALL OF OUR DEPARTED
USS FORRESTAL SHIPMATES, FATHERS OR NOT.
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