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09/13/09
The vast parking lot surrounding Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium was a sea of navy blue and gold, as Naval Academy graduates and midshipmen's families celebrated before, during and after yesterday's Navy-Louisiana Tech game. Feasts from simple paper bag picnics to elaborate tented, catered affairs were on display at tailgate parties that dotted the lot like confetti. 
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Wounded veteran Marine Lt. Col. Ty Edwards, left, shows off the customized 2010 Toyota Sienna van he and his family received from Operation Support Our Troops to one of the friends who saved his life in Afghanistan, Navy Corpsman Stephen Albright of Germantown. The van was officially presented to Edwards in a ceremony following yesterday’s Navy-Louisiana Tech football game, and Edwards was the guest of honor at a tailgate party hosted by the academy’s Class of 1974.Find Us On Facebook
In the lower end of the lot, beneath a high-flying, helium-filled balloon, the Class of '74 dedicated its fiesta-themed party to a Marine officer from Florida who was grievously wounded during an ambush in Afghanistan last Oct. 18. In a special...
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Troops - 2009-09-13 09:51:52
This should be "front page". People are forgetting what is going on in this world. Big thanks to Skip and everyone else involved.
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