I just wrote this article about impossible dreams in the maritime industry: OPED - El Capitan Quixote And An Impossible Dream After a three-quarter-century battle, the American Merchant Marine Veterans Association won full veteran recognition for WWII mariners… something that only two years ago see…

[image] john: What else? A united country.

Getting the public at large to understand what the merchant marine is, and is not, and extrapolation, what merchant mariners are, and are not. For those who use facebook, how many times on Sheila Sova’s sight and read someone say, “my (whomever) was a merchant marine” or (my (whomever joined/enlist…

When Sal becomes the Maritime Administrator, and hires me to his staff, then I’ll get the reform started.

[image] LI_Domer: When Sal becomes the Maritime Administrator, Now that does sound impossible! (And awesome!!)

[image] john: After a three-quarter-century battle, the American Merchant Marine Veterans Association won full veteran recognition for WWII mariners… something that only two years ago seemed impossible. That was a late recognition well deserved but came with little benefits I am aware of. My …

I continue to dream of a maritime workplace that is safe for women and free of assault and harassment. 30 plus years ago members of the Women’s Maritime Association worked to get the ‘Skipper Reporting Law’ passed to help provide accountability for people that experienced assault while onboard. Sa…

I don’t think it’s appropriate to confer veteran status or benefits for post WW2 mariners.

So, we should abolish MSC as well as contract employees aboard ships that service the military exclusively? If that happened the US military would come to a screeching halt.

[image] lm1883: I don’t think it’s appropriate to confer veteran status or benefits for post WW2 mariners. That sounds like a great topic of conversation for a new thread… which you’re welcome to start. What’s my crazy and impossible dream? I have many but one is to prove you wrong one day… …

Great article! Very good synopsis of the past week at the AMMV Convention. Sadly modern mariners think they are too young or cool to join our cause but as you can see, there were so many modern mariners at this convention. One spent an hour talking to journalist Rita Cosby who host a live radio show…

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Lee_Shore September 28, 2021, 2:54pm 2

A united country.

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