Just wanted to share a nice collection of pictures from over the years of your Navy celebrating our nation's Independence Day at sea.

http://news.usni.org/2015/07/03/photo-gallery-u-s-independence-day-at-sea

I hope all 11Ws had a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend.  Many of us may still be recovering, but I suppose that comes with being proud citizens of great a society.  If you're going to hoot with the owls, you gotta be ready to get up the next morning and soar with the eagles .  Or something like that.

Here's to another 239 years of the 'great experiment' that is our Democratic Republic.