I came across this ship while reading the December 2021 issue of the Civil War Times, Not exactly where you'd expect to find a Korean War and Vietnam warship.
From the December 2021 Civil War Times Rambling with John Banks "No man left behind"
He went to Shepherdstown, West Virginia, to walk the battlefield there and met Steve Alemar who is not only a parking enforcement officer, but also president of the Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association.
John Banks has a blog called John Banks Civil War Blog and he goes to lots of places and relives fairly unknown parts of the war. Regardless of your interest in history, if you want to read and go along with someone really living history, this is your guy. Well worth a trip to his site.
I wrote about his trip to meet Lt. Lemuel Crocker from the battle who Banks describes as a "Civil War Bad Ass" in my Saw the Elephant: Civil War blog earlier this month.
Anyway, John Banks, also found quite a story with Steve Alemar, whose mom was a secretary for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and dad was employed by the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA. Alemar himself was a former postal worker and also served as a park ranger for two years at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C..
He is also a veteran of the Vietnam War himself. I will write about his experience on the USS Newport News next.
So, when John Banks went from the Civil War to the Vietnam War, he did some RoadTrippin' Through History, which I do a lot. I start with a story and see how far I can take it.
--Cooter
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