Tom Labarre:  

Now that we’re in the Twilight of our years we wonder where the time has gone. We look back and remember those earlier years, for me after high school I went into the coast guard after boot camp I served time in Florida working on a construction tender a tug boat that pushing a barge we would spend up to a month at a time on the Saint John an Inter-coastal river repairing navigational aids... it was a fun time. After a year I moved on to a electrical school located on Governors Island NYNY, I was there during the first North East power failure around 1978. Remember? After that I moved onto a 376 ft search and rescue ship called the Coast Guard Cutter Duane ( Google it, there’s an interesting story behind it and I was there for part of it that was written) there our duty was to patrol the Atlanta North East Sea board performing search and rescue on boats that were in danger or boarding fishing trawlers making sure they are in compliance and stopping drug smuggling. There was one time we boarded a double mast schooner that was carrying 9 tons of marijuana, we seized it and took it into Boston Harbor to be dispo...Expand for more