Honor Workers

Things in life provide for unintended futures. Times passed and memories of life come to the front. Fresh out of high school, and some out of their military duty earned apprenticeships at the long gone Philadelphia Navy Yard. What we learned also gave us memories and some accessed and climbed the ladders available. We remember the ships, the experiences, good and bad, as well as friendships developed. Many of us lived with the scars of our asbestos exposure. 

Thinking back on the friendships, leaves us feeling as though; who, what, when and what next. As we served during our employment we often observed numerous gray hulks of retired warships sitting mothballed only to consume pier space in their mothballed retirement. Recently one of our good memories reached an end where the asbestos took its toll. Many Craft- persons that never saw shipyard service also are seeing their retirement from life by the scars of a substance that was at one time used as a safe insulator. All of us will at some point leave this world. 

Monuments are erected to those who served our country. Many of those under tribute by a monument are daily remembered. On the first Monday in September we will commemorate the working people of the world. The construction workers are memorialized and celebrated by the Skylines of the cities constructed. 

Thursday a friend and co-worker was well received into Our Lord’s Dry Dock. Thinking back on his life, he and many others worked to construct our sky line monuments; whether industrial, utility, business or dwellings, those edifices all, were erected with efforts of; Architects, Drafts people, Engineers, Laboring trades people, and their supporting families. The families of the workers are honored for their efforts wherein they provided a home for their loved members whom contributed to the construction of the everyday skyline monument.