Category: D. Allan Kerr
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Cold War Casualties Aboard USS Thresher
By D. Allan Kerr Fred Philip Abrams — better known as Phil — was born in Kittery, Maine, in 1920, went through the town’s public school system and graduated from Traip Academy in 1938. After serving in Europe during World…
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Widow Lacked Luxury Of Tears
By D. Allan Kerr Elizabeth Hurd was, by her own admission, a shy young girl from Fryeburg, Maine, in 1951, when two friends set her up on a blind date with a dashing ROTC cadet at the University of Maine.…
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Hometown Boy Lost Aboard USS Thresher
By D. Allan Kerr The 1961 Portsmouth High School yearbook features a Page 6 photo of USS Thresher — described as “a new attack-type submarine” — being launched at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard the previous summer. Page 42 of the same…
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Trump’s Tower of Lies – The Sequel
By D. Allan Kerr Not so very long ago I wrote a column exploring Donald J. Trump’s strange propensity for lying about pretty much anything. I didn’t think it would be necessary to follow up on that diatribe, but at…
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Pennington One Of Three African-Americans Lost Aboard Doomed Submarine Thresher
By D. Allan Kerr At a time when African-Americans were still engaged in a fierce civil rights struggle, Roscoe Cleveland Pennington blazed his own trail in the U.S. Navy. Born and raised in Forth Worth, Texas, Pennington enlisted in January…
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Thresher Disaster Claimed Life Of Rising Naval Star
By D. Allan Kerr In the early days of the nuclear Navy, the best submarine officers tended to be both academics and swashbucklers — equal parts brains and guts. As the crew of the most advanced seagoing vessel of its…
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Saving Story Of The Surfmen
By D. Allan Kerr Back before President Woodrow Wilson created the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915, stations dotting the nation’s coastlines and the Great Lakes were established to aid mariners in distress. These stations were operated by the U.S. Life-Saving…
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The Faux Campaign Of Donald J. Trump
By D. Allan Kerr For those fretting that the candidacy of Donald J. Trump will destroy the GOP, you can relax. Not only will Trump NOT win the Republican nomination, he has absolutely no desire to do so. What’s more,…
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Tissues For Trump
By D. Allan Kerr I was scrolling online last night and came across a tragic tale of how TV host Anderson Cooper treats GOP nominee Donald Trump unfairly. My eyes teared up at the injustices poor Donald must endure. Here’s…
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Donald Trump’s Willie Horton
By D. Allan Kerr I didn’t watch the big debate Monday night. Initially I forgot about it, and then when I remembered I was in the middle of a classic “Deadwood” mini-binge and just couldn’t bring myself to listen to…
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