It’s been a year since the Taliban swept into Kabul. For many U.S. troops who tried to help Afghans flee their homeland, the last two weeks of August 2021 remain indelibly seared into their consciousness.
“They knew how to make things work,” the 70-year-old daughter of a Navy aviation ordnanceman said of her parents, while explaining how her mother’s wedding dress was made from an old parachute.
Naha Air Base Exchange, Naha, Okinawa, Japan, August 1962: Mrs. Edward B. Dawson helps son Eddie and daughter Debbie stock up with school supplies and back-to-school clothes.
Ferry travel is magical. On the water, every sense is activated, and you can take it all in at a comparatively easy pace. The Pacific Northwest is a marvelous place to indulge an obsession with ferries.
