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> > I expanded my knowledge of the US Coast Guard, and also the Canadian armed
> > forces, while touring the Great Lakes.  I have forgotten much (I need to go
> > back and read my notes), but that is where I learned that our Coast Guard
> > was not always restricted to domestic operations in the past.  There are a
> > few memorials/historical markers dedicated to Coast Guard units lost during
> > the early days of WWII on the lakes.

> How did this happen? I don't recall fighting happening there? Training in 
win
> r conditions, maybe?

Sorry, the memorials are in cities that are "on the lakes," but they are
for coast guard persons lost in the Atlantic (usually). They were tied to
the Great Lakes area because they were with units from a Great Lakes town
and/or were on boats either made at, or named after, a place on the
Great Lakes.

That said, the US's first air craft carriers were tested in Lake Michigan,
off of the coast of the Northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan.

> >> War just plain sucks, even when necessary (as a few were)
> > Yes indeed it does.  Most serious conflict, whether it be large wars or
> > small, interpersonal conflicts, plain suck.

> Yet humans are addicted to them, it seems (from Facebook, at least,. & the 
ea
> y days of "Fight-O Net" *G*)

Some people like drama, I guess.  :)


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