 Bronze Reliefs The Navy Family - "They who wait also serve." |
| Sailors are, after all, people. Like their land-locked cousins, they walk, talk, drive, eat, sleep, work, play, and in time, find a mate, get married, settle down and raise a family. Well, maybe settle down; that's the one thing that distinguishes a Navy family from almost all others. There is nothing very settled down about the separation imposed by long deployments at sea. History has seen Navy families‹wives, children, and mothers and fathers‹standing on piers as their sailors departed for long deployments in foreign oceans. During their absence, it is the families who have had the responsibility of keeping the home fires burning. But, after enduring each period of separation, there has always been a happy ending as their sailors return from the sea.
The Navy Family bronze relief was fully sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Fleet Reserve Association. Stepping aside from high technology, computerized and mass marketing fund-raising programs, the Ladies Auxiliary raised funds for their sponsorship through a variety of home-grown, tried and true programs‹bake sales, raffles, sales of Lone Sailor lapel pins and tie-tacks. This dedicated group of women also played a key role in the Fleet Reserve Association's campaign to raise $1,000,000 for the Navy Memorial, including sponsorship of The Homecoming© statue which stands on the Quarterdeck of the Visitors Center.
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