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We missed it all.

Parade was over, Midshipmen Class of 2012 had tossed their hats and kids already collected them for the 100^th time in the Academy’s history. Old Tamanend (aka Tecumseh, a figurehead from the USS Delaware) in his new attire and a couple of announcements around the city reminded of the festivities.

Tradition's retrospective:

by Michael Kane	by Stuart Weibel
property of USNAparents.com	by Diane Knittle

 

While newly commissioned officers pack the bus to their duty stations

the cadets are either on-duty

or enjoying their free time:

Our feet customary directed us to Fordham to find that, while Ram’s Head ** Tavern is where we had left it last year, Annapolis heritage is now brewed in Delaware, albeit using same centuries proven recipes.

(Delaware also hosts Dogfish Head; till 1995 breweries in DE were still illegal. Noticed the role of the First State in our "story" ?)

  Chilled and reloaded we strolled down the Main Street.
We'd like to show you the place we like, the way it showed itself to us.

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** Naming a tavern Ram's Head in Annapolis might not be as purely coincidental: Bill the Goat is the USNA Mascot for already more than a century and now at its XXXIII generation

by Lieutenant Junior Grade John Gay