Our new garden up on Fire Mountain, in Oceanside, looked like hell I grew up in Southern California suburbia and hated gardening. It was called yard work, which pretty much explains why any kid would …
July 17, 2023
As for the dead whose graves were buried on Point Loma two days later, the Navy did a turnaround on shipping the bodies to their loved ones. Originally, naval officials had “forgotten” that Congress after the sinking of the Maine authorized funds for sending bodies of sailors home.
Posted November 12, 1987
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Thought about Idaho, settled for Oceanside
When the USS Bennington blew up in the San Diego harbor
Lee Strobel did not die in the steam blast as he thought he would. The force of the steam had carried him forward until he hit a bulkhead almost fifty feet from where he had been standing.
November 12, 1987