This was the first page in the Sailors’ Stories section, started around 2011. For the most part these pages tell of events that happened in the past or even in current times about things sailors have done, had happen to them, or are doing now.
This first page is narrated by Navy Veteran Ernest Borgnine, recognized by virtually everyone as McHale from McHale’s Navy and innumerable motion pictures, as well as an Academy Award winner. His effort here, along with the other sailors in the video, is to preserve the destroyers and other museum ships that have fallen on hard financial times around the country. Just about every museum ship is fighting tough funding conditions and needs support if it is to continue.
You can hear the pride in these sailors’ voices as they talk about the ships on which they served. Learn what they are doing to preserve them and their history now, so that future generations will know what these men and ships did to maintain our freedom.
Tin Can Sailors is raising money to make ongoing grants, and also to establish an investment fund which will be designed to be a perpetual funding source for the ships. Money raised and not distributed to the ships this year will become part of this investment. The long-term goal is to reach over $2,000,000 in this fund, which would generate money to make annual awards to the ships for years to come. They dream of leaving this legacy to America’s destroyer museum ships, so that they know they will always have our support to keep their stories — our memories — alive.
For more information, visit Tin Can Sailors home page.