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Photographer: Joseph Alvarado
Taken: March 18, 2023
Caption: Coast Guard Est. 4 Aug 1790
Additional Description: ”The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified shall be directly proportional to how they perceive veterans of the early wars were treated and appreciated by our nation.”
- President George Washington

“To the Coast Guard is charged protection of the life and ships upon the sea… No night too stormy, no seas too high, no shoals too forbidding to restrain our cutters from their work saving life…”
- U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Submitted: April 10, 2023, by Joseph Alvarado of Livermore, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p716466
File Size: 3.168 Megabytes

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