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​Navy Lakehurst Historical Society: Preserving the rich airship history in America

​Navy Lakehurst Historical Society: Preserving the rich airship history in America

“Oh, the humanity!” – Herb Morrison, a radio announcer May 6, 1937 This is what he said when he came to record a voice over for the landing of the largest dirigible airship ever built, Hindenburg. Little did the people know that it will burst into flames and turned the fabric cover into ashes in just 34 seconds leaving the metal skeleton on the ground, collapsed, and filled the sky of Lakehurst, New Jersey with smoke and fire. 62 passengers and crew members had survived the explosion; some …
Oct 16th 2019 Joshua Cypher
History of Patch Collecting

History of Patch Collecting

Since before the first century, insignias were adopted to show dedication to a religion, family, or culture. The Greeks and Romans and later, the Christians, all had emblems that were symbols of the religious and cultural beliefs. Medieval Christians wore badges made of metal and pinned onto their clothing to show they had been to famous shrines and well known places. The pilgrim's collections grew quite large and were even mentioned in 'Canterbury Tales' by the well known author Chaucer.Philant …
Nov 15th 2018 Christopher Drake
Captain Morpheus of the Matrix wants our Military Patches

Captain Morpheus of the Matrix wants our Military Patches

Morpheus captain of the Nebuchadnezzar stopped by to talk patches!Unless you took the blue pill in which case we had a highly sought after terrorist here in the matrix pay us a visit. Either way Morpheus had called us up and wanted to pay us a visit. After rummaging around our vast warehouse containing tens of thousands of military patches we sat down and started discussing matters of the free world. After informing us that he had just recruited an entirely new crew and wanted to initiate t …
Aug 6th 2013 Joshua Cypher
John Wayne Patch Quote

John Wayne Patch Quote

Now we didn't get to sit down with him, but John Wayne, the Duke, was overheard recently speaking about his beret patch for the 5th Special Forces.He was telling a child a little about his military patch on his beret, and this is what he said in his conversation:"You see, this patch means I'm a bad ass."-John WayneHe said it and we know it's true. Now don't get me wrong, I don't think his patch makes him a bad ass... John Wayne is a bad ass. And he sure wears it like one. I wouldn …
Jul 16th 2013 Christopher Drake
William Wallace Patch Quote

William Wallace Patch Quote

Ok, this is embarrassing.We got a contract to supply the entire Scottish army lead by none other than William Wallace himself with a freaking ton of patches! 2,300 to be exact. I'm certain you can see why. I mean that's quite a lot of patches and quite a bit of exposure. But we screwed up. Before the battle was to begin, and we were supposed to have the patches in hand, William Wallace rode up wearing one of our mountain infantry patches, the very one we were supposed to supply the rest of the a …
Jun 18th 2013 Christopher Drake