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Media mogul Ted Turner, former Coastie, receives Lone Sailor Award

By Meghann Myers on September 20, 2013 Navy

Media mogul Ted Turner is known for a lot of things: Founding CNN, a long marriage to actress Jane Fonda, and once proclaiming he wanted to buy so much land that he could ride his horse from Canada to Mexico without leaving his own property, among others. But did you know that once upon a time, he was in the Coast Guard? He was, and Wednesday night at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., the Navy Memorial presented him with the 2013 Lone Sailor Award. “My time in the Coast Guard was life-changing,” Turner said in a Navy Memorial…

2013 Lone Sailor honorees: GM CEO, former Marine commandant, media mogul Turner

By Kevin Lilley on August 27, 2013 Navy

The Navy Memorial’s trio of 2013 Lone Sailor awardees have worn the uniforms of the Navy, the Marines, the Coast Guard … and even the Atlanta Braves. General Motors CEO Dan Akerson (Naval Academy Class of 1970), retired Marine Corps Gen. P.X. Kelley and Ted Turner, who served in the Coast Guard briefly before creating a media empire, will be honored by the organization at a Sept. 18 dinner in Washington, D.C. The award goes to “sea service veterans who have excelled with distinction in their respective civilian careers while exemplifying the Navy’s core values of honor, courage and commitment,” according…

Do you know this sailor? Today someone placed this photo at the base of the Lone Sailor. What is the story? pic.twitter.com/zpEjoZmbxk
— Navy Memorial (@NavyMemorial) July 29, 2013

Anniversary meets mystery at Navy Memorial

By Kevin Lilley on July 30, 2013 Historical, Navy, Veterans, World War II

As with any good mystery in the modern age, this one started on social media: [HTML1] Cherished images, medals, letters, all kinds of items are left at the bases of military memorials, but the Navy Memorial rarely sees such tributes, according to Navy Memorial Foundation curator Mark Weber. It’s not as secluded as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, where hundreds of thousands of items have been left by family, friends, brothers-in-arms and four-star generals to honor fallen heroes. Sometimes a veterans group will leave a wreath, unannounced, at the base of the Lone Sailor, Weber said in an email, but that’s…

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