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Photographer: Joseph Alvarado
Taken: March 18, 2023
Caption: Merchant Marine Est. 1775
Additional Description: ”But for the people that built these ships and the men who sailed them we wouldn’t have out freedom today.”
- Captain Frank Medeiros U.S.M.S.

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any for, to assure the survival and success of liberty.”
- President John F. Kennedy
Submitted: April 10, 2023, by Joseph Alvarado of Livermore, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p716467
File Size: 2.420 Megabytes

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