America honors merchant mariners, without whom we could not win wars
By Capt. James Tobin, opinion contributor — 03/24/20 07:00 AM EDT
In 2020, the nation will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the many harrowing battles that made it possible. Regrettably, this will be the last major tribute to the greatest generation of aging American soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who saved the nation — and the world — from a bleak totalitarian future.
There is one group who served — and also sacrificed — who often are left out of the commemorations: the more than 200,000 American merchant mariners who commanded and crewed the U.S. Merchant Marine fleet of cargo ships that literally made victory possible.
President Trump and a bipartisan Congress recently rectified this historic oversight.
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