- KETCHER OnLine Report -
Sunday, August 17, 2008
USS Intrepid (CV, CVA, CVS-11)
 
" En Mare ... En Coelo " 
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Taps :
  - Let Us Not Forget Those Who Have Gone Before Us -
 
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From the Board Room :
 

AGAIN...Good news, FCMs !!! !!!! Thanks to the efforts of the Intrepid Museum - especially Bill White, Dave Winters and Susan Marenoff - we have approval for 150 FCMs to Man the Rail on Intrepid’s return to Pier 86, in Manhattan on the Hudson river on October 2, 2008.

 

Thanks to your quick responses to our recent notices, we already have 150+ who have notified us that they will definitely be there.  If you have not done so, but want to ride back - we are keeping a “waiting ‘list” in case anyone can’t make it.

 

We will continue working very diligently on sleeping and travel arrangements, and will keep you all posted as things develop.

 

Your Board of Directors.

 
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Intrepid Flag Program : - The Birth of the Flag -
 
In December 1606 three small ships of the Virginia Company of London set sail down the Thames.  The Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery all flew white banners, each with a bold red cross.  From the mainmast of the Susan Constant, the largest of the three vessels, yet another flag fluttered, a bright tumble of darting lines and angles of red, white, and blue.  Great storms and contrary winds held the ships in the English Channel.  Only after "six weeks in the sight of England" were they able to brave the Atlantic Ocean and bear toward their destination along the eastern coast of North America.
 
The Virginia colony founded in May 1607 by a few score planters - the "adventurers" were those who stayed home and ventured capital - was named Jamestown for James I, the English king who had given them their charter as a joint-stock company.  Jamestown, although it suffered many disasters, was the first successful English settlement in North America.
 
The white banner bearing the red cross was known as the flag of St. George.  It had been an English national flag since the Middle Ages, when, with other western Christians, English Crusaders lnder Richard I and Edward I had set out to wrest the Holy Land from Muslim powers.  In the city-state of Genoa, the English armies fell under the spell of the fourth-century martyr St. George, whose miraculous intervention as a valiant knight was credited with many a Christian victory.  A 13th-century manuscript related that at the 1099 siege of Jerusalem, the figure of the saint appeared, clad in his familiar white armor emblazoned with a red cross, and exhorted the Englishmen to climb the scaling ladders.  By 1415 the Archbishop of Canterbury called St. George the "patron and special protector" of England.
 
In May 1497, John Cabot set out from England to explore the north-eastern coast of North America for Henry VII, with the king's authority to display "our banners and ensigns."  A century later, Sir Francis Drake, circumnavigating the world in his famous flagship, the Golden Hind, anchored off the coast of what is now California and named the country New Albion, in honor of an ancient name for England.  A period map of Drake's voyage shows the flag of St. George planted on New Albion, marking this English claim in the New World.
Margaret Sedeen - National Geographic staff writer and editor of... 
STAR-SPANGLED BANNER: Our Nation and Its Flag
  
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USS Intrepid  "Fly a Piece of History in Your Town"  - *Flag Program -
 
If it works out, Flags will be flown from the mast of the Intrepid on the 'ride' back to Pier 86,
and these flags, commemorating the 'ride', will be made available to our Active Dues Paying Members
 through our 'Fly a Piece of History in Your Town' Flag Program.
 
For details on how you can procure your own "Fly a Piece of History in Your Town" American Flag,
please contact FCM Jack C. Hurff (Flag Program Chairman) at 131 Cedar Avenue, Linden, NJ 07036,
Email: jackch1@comcast.net or FCM Mike Hallahan (Association President) at 1911 E. 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234-4801, Email: patmikay@yahoo.com .
 
*Supports Your USS Intrepid Association, Inc. 
 
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Intrepid Museum :
  - Commitment to the Intrepid -
    
 The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is a monument to all who have served,
 and - will continue to serve - our nation in uniform while Intrepid is 'On Leave'.
 
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