Shared sacrifice

Shared sacrifice.

USS Lexington Benefit for Preservation

Maritime Heritage Swing tickets have dropped to $15 for the last two weeks of sale! 

Tickets are available at Eventbrite.com.

DuPont Hosts Hudson Bay Day & Salmon BBQ

The DuPont Museum & Historical Society's Hudson Bay Day and Salmon BBQ is set for Sunday, August 17 (12-4 pm). See poster below for more info.

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About the Buffalo Soldiers' Legacy

The Lakewood Historical Society will present The Legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 (7 p.m.) at St. Mary's Episcopal Church (10630 Gravelly Lake Dr SW, Lakewood). (Click on Image for a Larger and Complete View)

Freedom's Question Answered

When Francis Scott Key wrote his poem during the battle for Fort McHenry in 1814, during the War of 1812 (the first fought under our Constitution), he could not have dreamed of the role it would play in this nation.

Yes, many sing the first stanza, yet too few realize that it asks a question.  The next three stanzas answer that question.  Here's the final answer:

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

McChord "Shaky" Discovered in Alaska

The Air Force Magazine Online reports an Air Force C-124A (Ol' Shaky) transport that crashed en route from McChord AFB, Wash., to Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, on Nov. 22, 1952, was discovered earlier this month by an Army National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crew on Colony Glacier in Alaska.

JPAC investigators think the wreckage is that reported by the Associated Press on June 28 (via the New York Daily News). All 52 personnel aboard the aircraft—41 passengers and 11 crew—perished in that accident, according to AP.

The eight-person JPAC team, which arrived on the glacier on June 18, retrieved bone fragments, personal effects and military survival equipment. The collected material is going to a JPAC personnel identification lab.

Defense Department forensic scientists intended to scout the area for a follow-on recovery effort. Due to deteriorating weather and glacier conditions, the team ended up recovering as much evidence as possible.

ShuttleFest Invites All

After a 30-year career training crews for every Space Shuttle mission, NASA’s Space Shuttle Trainer Crew Compartment comes to its new home in the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery, leaving its long-time home at the Johnson Space Center in Houston for its new home at The Museum of Flight in Seattle.

On Saturday, June 30^th at The Museum of Flight in Seattle, we will be hosting ShuttleFest in welcome.  And you are invited to come celebrate!

The Space Shuttle Trainer Crew Compartment will arrive at The Museum of Flight at 11 a.m. on June 30^th kicking off ShuttleFest, a week full of exciting events and activities with appearances by a star-studded line-up that includes Gov. Christine Gregoire and several well-known NASA Astronauts who will be signing commemorative posters and meeting the public.

The event is free to the public. Come join ShuttleFest! Brought to you by Boeing and BECU.