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Commemorating Merchant Marine veterans Just received the November 27 2003 issue of the Babylon Beacon commemorating Veterans Day and listing 22 various organization honoring their dead. Noticeably absent, to these aging eyes, was any mention of the WW II Merchant Marine veterans. Have they all gone to Davy Jones locker? According to statistics compiled by the U.S. Maritime Service veterans, the Merchant Marine suffered 8,380 war dead, or one in 26 of the 215,000 who served during WWII. The U.S. Marines lost one in 34 of their personnel, the Army one in 48, the Navy one in 114, and the Coast Guard one in 421. With glaring statistics like the above, how can the few remaining "old salts" be denied a small space to commemorate their participation in WWII. John Palmer former owner of Babylon Recreation Shop Stuart, Florida
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