Newport (LST 1179) - Naval Cruise Book

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I Am the atzon 1,512 of J uly fm Kztlzzm I was born on July 4 1776 and the Declaration of Independence is my birth certificate 'lhe bloodline of the world runs in my veins because I offered freedom to the op pressed I am many things and many people I am the Na tion I am 200 million people living souls and the ghosts of millions who have lived and died for me I am Nathan Hale and Paul Revere I stood at Lex ington and fired the shot heard around the world I am Washington Jefferson and Patrick Henry I am John Paul Jones the Green Mountain Boys and Davy Crockett I am Lee and Grant and Abe Lincoln I remember the Alamo the Maine and Pearl Harbor When Freedom called I answered and stayed until it was over over there I left my heroic dead in Flanders Fields on the Rock of Corregidor and the Black steppes of Korea I am the Brooklyn Bridge the wheat lands of Kansas the granite hills of Vermont the potato fields of Wisconsin I am the coalfields of the Virginias and Pennsylvania the fer tile lands of the Mid west The Golden Gate and the Grand Canyon I am Independence Hall the Monitor and the Merrimac I am big' I sprawl from the Atlantic to the Pacific three million square miles throbbing with industry I am more than five million farms I am forest field mountain desert I am quiet villages and cities that never sleep You can look at me and see Ben Franklin walking down the streets of Philadelphia with his breadloaf under his arm You can see Betsy Ross with her needle You can see the lights of Christmas and hear the strains of Auld Lang Syne as the calendar turns I am Babe Ruth and the World Series I am 169 000 schools and colleges and 250 000 churches where my people worship God as they like best I am a ballot dropping in a box the roar of a crowd at the stadium and the voice of a choir in a cathedral I am an editorial in a newspaper and a letter to a congressman I am Eli Whitney and Stephen Foster I am Thomas Edison Albert Einstein and Billy Graham. I am Horace Greeley Will Rogers and the Wright Brothers. I am George Washington Larver Daniel Webster and Jonas Salk. I am Longfellow Harriet Beecher Stowe Walt Whit- man and Tom Paine. I am Phillip Brooks Billy Sunday and Bishop Quayle, Yes I am the Nation and these are the things I am. I was conceived in Freedom and God willing in Freedom I will spend the rest of my days. May I possess always the integrity the courage and the strength to keep myself unshackled to remain a citadel of freedom ard a beacon of hope to the world. This is my wish my goal and my prayer on this my birthday two-hundred years after I was born, ' Author Unknoun

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3 ,Q ,A,.,.. V Soviet AGI stops in for fuel M m'm Good! Q34 , X , I OK, You asked for it. Soviet KASHIN Class DDG joins the fun in the sun at Kithira ia- . Z . . af A 3 'QV Amphib Task forces meet at sunriv Kithira for Turnover. A nice place to visit, but... 39?

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K- 1 K ,, an Officer's Call. Q.--.M flat . NEWPORT in ruins hw-4, 547 259 Q2 sf is The NEWPORT's Med basketball team and trophies won.