Huzzah! It's a Block Party! We're shaking up July 4th tradition with the addition of a community block party at the Navy Yard. "Putt through History" minigolf, live music, food trucks, and activities -- with a special focus on celebrating the Military Community on Independence Day. #FreeFamilyFun
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"They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home." - FDR to Americans on the night of June 6th, 79 years ago.
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#NeverForget
📷 Photos courtesy of U.S. Navy
Don't miss Tuesday's event with World War II historian and author Joe Balkoski, called “the finest living D-Day historian" by USA Today. Following a presentation, participants are invited to participate in a commemoration of D-Day in front of the USS Constitution Museum at the head of Dry Dock #1.
Free event, no registration required:
A Mighty Endeavor: Honoring the U.S. Navy’s Role on D-Day - USS Constitution Museum
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EVENT REGISTRATION This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Admission to the Museum is by donation.
This week will celebrate Women Veterans on USS Constitution's first underway of the year! To keep with the theme, this is the uniform worn by Lieutenant Claire V. Bloom, the first woman to wear an officer’s 1804-style uniform in the modern U.S. Navy when she served as executive officer from 1996 to 1998. Women were prohibited from serving in the U.S. Navy in the 1800s, so this uniform strives to stay true to the original uniforms while adapting it for Lieutenant Bloom.
The purse? Standard '90s-era U.S. Navy issue. In a 1998 interview with the Boston Globe, Bloom explained that she wore the purse even with her replica uniform because it was a convenient way of carrying her things around. And, why not? #efficiency #GetsItDone
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Lieutenant Commander Claire Bloom
