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It’s interesting that the next four days will be dedicated to members of the 41 for Freedom Family who all had a direct connection to the Civil War and those days that will forever be remembered as the turning point for the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln, who was dedicated to the preservation of the Union. Stonewall Jackson who had died in May of 1863 was obviously not present at Gettysburg but his absence was felt by Lee. Lee who calculated the most in this single venture and saw his fortunes reversed by that gamble and of course General Grant who was not present but was winning decisively in the western campaign at the same time which ensured the path the Union would follow for the rest of the war. But first, we have the USS Abraham Lincoln. Surprisingly, she was the first US warship to bear that name. The first time I saw the Abraham Lincoln, she was moored next to the USS Proteus in Guam. To someone who had just seen his first SSBN in person when he reported on board the George Washington, I couldn’t tell the difference.
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Lincoln was the last of the 598 class boats and she had just come to Guam not long before I did.
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I remember standing topside watch and learning about some of the customs of the boats. One of those customs was to announce the arrival and departure of the skipper. When the captain came on board for the first time that day, the boat’s name was announced with the word “Arriving”. Similarly if he was leaving, it was the boat’s name and the word “Departing”. If he was coming back from the tender or shore, he was “Returning”. If a boat was tied up outboard and the skipper of that boat needed to cross over, you had to say “such and such (boat’s name), crossing”. So one of my favorite stories from those days was being the topside watch when the skippers were returning form a Squadron meeting and getting the chance to make the announcement. In my case it was “George Washington, Returning, Abraham Lincoln, crossing”. But in 1974-75, my memory was that she had her share of mechanical problems. Since she was the Washington’s relief boat, we had to extend a few times on station as we waited for her to be ready to come and take the watch.
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Plus there was a pretty big typhoon that closed Apra Harbor and made patrol 43 a lot longer than any of us was prepared for. “NAMED FOR Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), 16th President of the United States and, next to Washington, best known and most cherished of all who have held that lofty position.Īdmiral Rickover wrote this in his book “Eminent Americans” Let’s just say cigarettes were in pretty high demand by the time we were told we could finally come home.īut the name Lincoln is certainly one of the most famous of all the 41 for Freedom names.
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More has been written about Lincoln than about any other President, yet we cannot be certain of having taken the full measure of the man. He is hard to appraise objectively the affection he inspires gets in our way.