Saturday, October 13, 2007

232 years old today


The United States Navy was established by the Second Continental Congress on October 13, 1775. Happy Birthday!

CrackedPot attended a Navy Birthday Ball where all the Sailors looked very spiffy in their Dress Whites. That is until an unfortunate incident (really, honestly, it was an accident!) involving an exploding bottle of Sunkist Orange Soda. Then the hapless victims resembled these.

Pictured is the Navy's sailing vessel, USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides." She is the oldest commissioned warship in the world.

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