sacrifice
The Long Blue Line blog series has been publishing Coast Guard history essays for over 15 years. To access hundreds of these service stories, visit the Coast Guard Historian’s Office’s Long Blue Line online archives, located here: THE LONG BLUE LINE (uscg.mil) The history of African American participation in the Coast Guard and […]
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Knoxville is set to host a gathering of some of America’s most elite warriors, marking 30 years after an epic battle for survival in the city of Mogadishu along the east coast of Africa in the country of Somalia. “About 60% casualty rate where (U.S. troops) were injured. I was shot three times, […]
America’s great appeal to the world was its promise of possibility. It presented itself as virgin territory, a tabula rasa where a society could form anew, free of the past, and where individuals might do the same, reinventing themselves, renewing themselves, starting over. It was a myth, of course: it took no account of those […]
After he gave up the gridiron for the ice, Shaquille Murray-Lawrence says his dream to compete for Canada at this year’s Beijing Olympics was thwarted by systemic discrimination within Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton. “I gave this sport everything that I had. I gave my country everything I had. I gave the organization everything I had. I […]
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