Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) - Naval Cruise Book

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CREW ' S BOOK WESTPAC 2006 NAVIGATION OPERATIONS REACTOR RELIGIOUS MINISTRIES SAFETY. SUPPLY. TRAINING WEAPONS AIR WING EMBARKED STAFF COMMANDER CARRIER STRIKE GROUP NINE DESRON9 CARRIER AIR WING TWO HS-2 HSL-47 VAQ-131 VAW-U6 VFA-2 VFA-34 VFA-137 VFA-151 VRC-30 NEW ARRIVALS CREW ' S BOOK STAFF AND CREDITS.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS FRONTPAGE TABLE OF CONTENTS PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN GETTYSBURG ADDRESS USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN CVN 72 HISTORY. HONGKONG PATTAYA BEACH, THAILAND SINGAPORE SASEBO, JAPAN CROSSING THE LINE CEREMONY. EXERCISE VALIANT SHIELD HAWAII RIMPAC2006 TIGER CRUISE (HAWAII - SAN DIEGO) AIR POWER DEMONSTRATION HOMECOMING SAN DIEGO TIGER CRUISE (SAN DIEGO - EVERETT) HOMECOMING EVERETT. MAP OF DEPLOYMENT. USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN CHAIN OF COMIVIAND COMMANDING OFFICER CURRENT EXECUTIVE OFFICER PREVIOUS EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMMAND MASTER CHIEF. DEPARTMENTS ADMINISTRATION AVIATION INTERMEDIATE MAINTENANCE AIR COMBAT SYSTEMS DECK DENTAL ENGINEERING LEGAI MEDIA MEDICAL

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you...You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union. When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender, he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy but four remained within the Union. The Civil war had begun. The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party ' s nomination for president, he sketched his life: I was born in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families-second families, perhaps I should say. My mother who, died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name Hanks.. .my father removed from Kentucky to. ..Indiana in my eighth year.. .it was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There, I ■ grew up. ..Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, l could read, write, and cipher.. .but that was all.