Rushmore (LSD 47) - Naval Cruise Book

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S16 kit' K Z, , A 4 eg K+ av ,f,A lpn! ji'0m the Editor Whenever anyone would :wk my dnd why he served in the militu1'5' he would answer. ko my lyidk won't hziye to. The world has changed inueh kinee then :md l um sure than thzinks to him. and those like him. my kids won't have to pratetiee nuelezir zittztek drills in elementary sehool its I onee did. Unfortunately, without the eonktimtly looming thrent of at planet eontrolled hy eommunikm. Ameriezmk olten forget the lkiet that there ure. :ind 1llVv'2lyS will he. those individunlk who spend their lives protecting those very people who eurry out their daily lives without giving their proteetork ai keeond thought. 'l'hztt however. is to provide. i On September l lth. 2lltll..iust ten dnyk :alter the Rushmore returned from zz live-month deployment. the nzition wus shaken hy the most deadly terrorist zittziek in the history ol. our eountry. The United States moved into :ietion with ai lirm resolve than nothing like this would ever hzippen signin. not inside our horders or anywhere else. A ehziin ol events liaid been plueed into aietion that would elimzix for us. the erew ol' the Ruxhmore :md our Marines. on January 6 '. 2003. if the privilege thzit we. the Amerienn men :md women in uniform. live