Take a Veterans Day tour of the USS Turner Joy (DD-951)

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Charles Turner Joy was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on 17 February 1895. Commissioned as an Ensign in the Navy upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1916, he served in the battleship Pennsylvania for more than four years, including the period of the United States’ participation in the First World War. She was the flagship of the Atlantic Fleet and, in December 1918, was one of the ships that escorted President Woodrow Wilson on his historic visit to France aboard the transport ship USS George Washington.

And Then There Were Three

This Veterans Day I wanted history to repeat itself in a creative way. Shortly after relocating to the Pacific Northwest in September 2014, I went down memory lane. The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard became my new home in the fall of 1994 when the USS Carl Vinson CVN-70 relocated there from NAS Alameda in the Bay area of California early in my career.

While visiting the shipyard with my 2 sons Bryant and Bryce at that time I discovered the USS Turner Joy (DDG-951) Museum Ship. What an opportunity to take them on tour and learn about a piece of naval history. It was captured here below.

Bryant (L) Bryce (R) posing for a picture on the brow of the USS Turner Joy (DDG-951) in 2014.

New experiences are what kept me in the Navy for 23 years. Traveling for FREE around the world 6 times and discovering new things at a young age helped shape my life in new ways.

Fast forward to the present and then there were three. Since our arrival in 2014, our newest addition Brayden had to earn his stripes this Veterans Day. Getting to tour the…