SAN DIEGO — Statues have been toppled. Flags have been lowered. America’s reckoning with its history of racism has spread across the country and is now casting its eyes toward the sea.
While most of Grand Haven’s Coast Guard Festival has been canceled amid the pandemic, what was mostly preserved was the annual U.S. Coast Guard National Memorial Service.
Editor’s note: This article is part of a series to salute the U.S. Coast Guard, as this week is traditionally the Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival week. The 2020 festival was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.
Editor’s note: This article is part of a series to salute the U.S. Coast Guard, as this week is traditionally the Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival week. The 2020 festival was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.
I was fairly new to the U.S. Coast Guard when I was offered a job at the Coast Guard Group in Grand Haven. I was originally from Michigan, so I was quite excited about getting this job and the fact of being back in my home state.
Loutit District Library is joining downtown Grand Haven businesses in a window display contest honoring the U.S. Coast Guard.
Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series to salute the U.S. Coast Guard, as this week is traditionally the Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival week. The 2020 festival was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.
The commander of Coast Guard Sector Field Office Grand Haven always faces a wide range of challenges, but Lt. Brian Howard has faced more than his share of adversity during his time in charge.
Today marks a very special day for the Charles A. Conklin American Legion Post 28 Grand Haven.
In observance of Memorial Day, members of the American Legion Post 28 placed hundreds of flags on veterans’ graves at Grand Haven’s Lake Forest Cemetery on Thursday.
While this weekend’s Memorial Day festivities will look much different than in years past, the Grand Haven Memorial Day Association still has plans to honor our deceased veterans.
Poppies are paper-thin, fragile flowers that blossom in early spring.
The Honor Guard from the American Legion Charles A. Conklin Post 28 in Grand Haven honored its namesake of the post at Grand Haven’s Lake Forest Cemetery on Thursday.
Tyler McKee said he would be lying if he said he wasn’t having the time of his life while deployed on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
The Sgt. Alvin Jonker VFW Post 2326 and the Nunica Nuts Motor Cycle Club sponsored a Deviled Egg Challenge to raise money to support and pay for a service dog for a local veteran.
HARTFORD, Conn. — A group of veterans and their service dogs, along with supporters of federal legislation that would help vets obtain the trained dogs as part of their treatment for a psychological or physical injury, gathered at the Connecticut Capitol Tuesday afternoon to screen the docum…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump insists that Iranian cultural sites are fair game for the U.S. military, dismissing concerns within his own administration that doing so could constitute a war crime under international law. He also warned Iraq that he would levy punishing sanctions i…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Reps. Bill Huizenga, R-Zeeland, and Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, applauded the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, in social media statements shortly after the White House took credit for the airstrike during the evening of Thursday, Jan. 2.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — For Iranians whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been stern-faced clergy, Gen. Qassem Soleimani was a popular figure of national resilience in the face of four decades of U.S. pressure.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran vowed "harsh retaliation" for a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport that killed a top Iranian general who had been the architect of its interventions across the Middle East, as tensions soared in the wake of the targeted killing.
Snow lightly fell as veterans saluted and residents placed their hands over their hearts Monday morning along Grand Haven’s Harbor Drive, and veterans lowered the flag at the Eternal Flame to half-mast.
As we prepare to celebrate Veterans Day on Monday, the Tribune sat down and talked with two local women who had very different military experiences, but who both devoted a part of their life to help protect and serve their country.
KINGSLEY — Twenty-one shots from an honor guard. The haunting sound of a bugler playing “Taps.” Then, total silence as two more Michigan Army National Guard Honor Guard members folded the flag draped over U.S. Army Sgt. David Feriend’s casket, presenting one to his two sisters.
LAMONT — The Henry E. Plant Camp No. 3 Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War of Grand Haven will conduct a ceremony to dedicate the organization’s Last Soldier marker for Ottawa County at 3 p.m. Saturday.
MUSKEGON — The USS LST-393 is now moored on Muskegon Lake near downtown Muskegon. Seventy-five years ago, it took part in one of the most important events of World War II: D-Day.
Congressman Bill Huizenga will be hosting an information session on Saturday for West Michigan high school students who are interested in attending a U.S. service academy.
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The U.S. Navy sent two guided-missile destroyers on Monday to challenge China’s claims to two reefs it has militarized without internationally recognized authority to do so, according to the United States.
Seaman Kyle Fialek, a Fruitport native, said his brother served in the U.S. Navy and was a great influence on him growing up.
PORT HURON — Shortly after 8 a.m. recently, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Hollyhock and its crew, surrounded by fishing boats under an overcast sky, pulled away from the Algonac pier, embarking on a buoy-tending mission that would set a record for the ship.
U.S. Navy Cmdr. Brent Jackson, a 1997 graduate of Grand Haven High School, is the commanding officer of the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93).
SPRING LAKE — Chris Hindley wanted to honor her son, Zachery Clark, who joined the U.S. Marine Corps last fall.
CHICAGO — James MacDonald, the senior pastor and founding member of Harvest Bible Chapel, has been fired, the church announced early Wednesday morning.
The local Chief Petty Officers Association has ended its collection to help Coast Guard members affected by the now-resolved federal government shutdown.
At five minutes to eight o’clock, on a Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, in Hawaii, Japanese planes attacked the United States military base at Pearl Harbor.
The U.S. Senate approved a compromise policy Wednesday on dumping ship ballast water in coastal ports and the Great Lakes, a practice blamed for spreading invasive species that damage the environment and the economy.
Grand Haven’s Norm Spring joined more than 100 other World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War veterans in Washington, D.C., last month for the Talons Out Honors Flight.
Grand Haven Rotarians lined Beacon Boulevard and Washington Avenue with 150 American flags on Sunday, Nov. 11, in honor of Veterans Day.
GRAND HAVEN TWP. — There were a lot of anxious nights in the DeGram house back in the early 1940s.
SAN DIEGO — A 2012 Reeths-Puffer High School graduate is serving in the U.S. Navy with Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 73 at Naval Station North Island in Coronado, California.
Lt. Col. Greg Turner assumed the leadership of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Detroit District on Thursday during a change-of-command ceremony.
Two new markers honoring the men and women of the armed forces who’ve served and fallen were unveiled Friday during a ceremony at the Lynne Sherwood Waterfront Stadium.
Lt. Brian Howard said his father inspired him to join the U.S. Coast Guard and that the community inspired him to request Grand Haven as his next assignment.
A 2015 Muskegon High School graduate is serving in the U.S. Navy as part of the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise, Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC).
The Tri-Cities Historical Museum will host a lecture next week called “The True Story of the USCGC Escanaba.”
Brent Jackson, a commander in the U.S. Navy and a native of Grand Haven, took command of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) on May 9 while underway off the coast of southern California.
SAN DIEGO — Service members and a few of their spouses took oaths to become U.S. citizens aboard the USS Midway Museum as part of the Citizenship and Immigration Service’s celebration of Independence Day.
SPRING LAKE TWP. — A U.S. Army veteran and Spring Lake Township resident puts up a flag memorial in celebration of the Fourth of July and Memorial Day holidays each year.
MUSKEGON — The Smithsonian Channel is launching the second season of “Hell Below,” a five-part series showcasing the strategic decisions made by military submariners during World War II, inspired by a book written at the USS Silversides Museum in Muskegon.
Spring Lake native Anne Allman thought her father was crazy when he first suggested she join the U.S. Coast Guard.
It’s been 75 years to the day since the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Escanaba sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
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