It was a rainy, wet July day…but we went out to the beach to re-create a great childhood memory I had. When I was a kid, the USS Missouri came into port in Bremerton. Our family drove out to Rich Passage to see it go through and it was incredible. The passage is so narrow, it seemed as if you could reach out and touch the gigantic aircraft carrier as it went by.
Today, the USS Stennis left on a mission to Iraq and I wanted our boys to see it leave. In the many years that have gone by, the foliage has overgrown so there wasn’t a good place to watch it go through Rich Passage, so we headed over to Fort Ward boat launch. We waited, waited and waited. It was neat, though, because we had a chance to teach the boys how to skip rocks. Around the corner came the support ships and then the Stennis. It was HUGE and the boys were impressed. Carlos was very serious about seeing the soldiers and respectfully saluted as the Stennis went by.