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Remembering Pearl Harbor

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1878″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1500571613056{margin: 0px !important;border-width: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;}”]Story and photos by Staff Sgt. Thaddeus Harrington[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn” css=”.vc_custom_1512276635609{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”]A Pearl Harbor Memorial Ceremony took place on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Taney in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor Dec. 7. The Taney is the last remaining vessel afloat that survived the attack on Pearl Harbor 71 years ago.

“Many of the units of today’s Maryland Army National Guard trace their honors and lineage from the Maryland regiments that served in World War II and other wars throughout our country’s history,” said Maj. Gen. James Adkins, the adjutant general of Maryland and keynote speaker for the event.

The USCGC Taney was named for Roger B. Taney, a Marylander who rose to become the secretary of the treasury then later chief justice of the United States.

The 327-foot Treasury-class, also referred to as the Secretary-class, cutter emerged during the Prohibition era and helped the Coast Guard curtail narcotics smuggling. The Coast Guard built seven Treasury-class cutters all named for former secretaries of the Treasury Department. Constructed in Navy shipbuilding yards and based on the Erie-class Navy gunboat, each cutter cost about $2.5 million in mid-1930s dollars and would cost over $40 million in today’s dollar.

Many of the Secretary-class cutters served the U.S. for more than 40 years. Only the USCGC Hamilton was sunk in combat against a German U-boat in 1942.

Commissioned Oct. 24, 1936, and decommissioned Dec. 7, 1986, the Taney was transferred to the city of Baltimore and is now a museum ship. The ship once housed more than 200 service members and one Grumman JF-2, a single-engine amphibious biplane.

“I still have dreams about that day,” said Thomas Talbott, a veteran who served in the Marine Corps in Hawaii during the attacks and attended the memorial ceremony for almost 30 years. “Thank you God. I’m reporting for duty.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]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[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][/vc_row]