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  Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lincoln is most famous for his roles in preserving the Union and ending slavery in the United States with the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin on the 348 acre (1.4 km²) Sinking Spring Farm in the southeast part of Hardin County, Kentucky, then considered the frontier (now part of LaRue County, in Nolin Creek, three miles (5 km) south of Hodgenville), to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks.
Lincoln represented the Alton and Sangamon Railroad in an 1851 dispute with one of its shareholders, James A. Barret.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abraham_Lincoln   (9154 words)

  
 USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The second USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), nicknamed "Abe", is the fifth Nimitz-class supercarrier in the United States Navy.
Abraham Lincoln was transferred to the Pacific, in September 1990.
Abraham Lincoln was to be the first carrier to integrate female aviators into the crew after the Combat Exclusion Laws were lifted on 28 April 1993.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Abraham_Lincoln_(CVN-72)   (1076 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: USS Abraham Lincoln   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
Either the USS Abraham Lincoln or the USS Kitty Hawk battle group would be sent from the Pacific fleets....
USS Abraham Lincoln carrier battle group is in the area.
A fictional USS Abraham Lincoln, frigate, is sunk by Captain Nemo's Nautilus in Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/organizations/USS_Abraham_Lincoln   (400 words)

  
 Abraham Lincoln Strike Group
Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky.
Although he had stated a willingness to tolerate slavery where it existed, Lincoln's election as the 16th president of the United States on November 6, 1860 precipitated the secession of the southern states and the formation of the Confederacy.
Abraham Lincoln will be forever remembered for his vital role as the leader who preserved the Union and began a process that led to the end of slavery in the United States.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/batgru-72.htm   (1330 words)

  
 USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
It was during this period of his life that Lincoln's misgivings about the institution of slavery took on more concrete form, and, though he lacked the fanatical zeal of the Abolitionists, Lincoln became a determined antislaver.
Lincoln won with a plurality of 40 percent of the votes cast.
USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN and the USS SACRAMENTO (AOE 1) collide during an underway replenishment.
navysite.de /cvn/cvn72.html   (1795 words)

  
 USS Lincoln and Bush
Lincoln curtailed civil liberties, as have Bush and the U.S. Congress.
Lincoln faced a real national security emergency, caused by European imperialist interests which wanted to "divide and conquer" America by fomenting a civil war.
Lincoln was self-educated, he did not have the presumed benefit of today's public education apparatus.
www.shout.net /~bigred/USSBush.htm   (988 words)

  
 Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
As as the USS Abraham Lincoln cast a shadow over the pier of Naval Station Everett yesterday morning, the crew and the crowd waiting to gree them could feel their nearly 10-month separation drawing to an end.
Everett is expecting a crowd of 10,000 tomorrow to officially welcome the USS Abraham Lincoln home -- from families on the base to visitors at the port's pier party to residents throwing barbecues in homes that overlook the water.
The crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln is weary, riding on a sea of longing.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /lincoln   (1296 words)

  
 President Bush's speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
Lincoln is returning from a deployment of almost 10 months to the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
And tonight, I have a special word for Secretary Rumsfeld, for General Franks and for all the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States: America is grateful for a job well done.
Lincoln is returning from deployment of over 9 months to the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
www.milparts.net /bush-on-uss-lincoln.html   (1996 words)

  
 USS ABE LINCOLN -- History
This page is dedicated to the Officers and crew who served on the Abraham Lincoln from the date her keel was laid on 11 November 1958, to the date she was decommissioned on 28 February 1981.
USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN is the fifth Fleet Ballistic Missile submarine in the United States and the first to be built at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
LINCOLN is equipped with an air conditioning system, carbon dioxide scrubbers, carbon monoxide-hydrogen burners, electrostatic precipitator, oxygen storage flasks and an electrolytic oxygen generator to maintain the ship’s atmosphere healthful for extended periods of submergence.
www.msu.edu /~jocque/abehist.html   (808 words)

  
 USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) completed its sea trials Sept. 20 when it returned to the ship’s homeport of Naval Station Everett.
USS Abraham Lincoln completed 296 traps during the underway and, if weather had permitted operations on Sunday, would have easily reached a total of 400.
Abraham Lincoln is the Navy’s first carrier to switch over from the older MARK 19 gyro to the ultra-modern ring laser gyro.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/990920-NEWS_PR_trials.htm   (611 words)

  
 USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) - en
Lincoln spent the better part of a year preparing for the deployment and then departed Alameda on June 15, 1993.
Lincoln was the first West Coast aircraft carrier to integrate women.
In response to renewed Iraqi military posturing, the Lincoln Battle Group was required to remain in the Arabian Gulf to participate in Operation Vigilant Sentinel.
www.military.cz /usa/navy/uss/carriers/lincoln/lincoln_en.htm   (1182 words)

  
 KOMO : USS Lincoln Returns Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
Nearly an hour after the Lincoln tied up at the pier in Everett, the first sailors disembarked, many carrying large, green duffel bags over their shoulders and a dozen red roses in one hand.
Helicopters from the Lincoln flew hundreds of missions to deliver food, water and other aid along the devastated west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
The Lincoln is expected to remain in Everett until early summer, when it will travel to southern California for routine training.
www.komotv.com /news/printstory.asp?id=35554   (631 words)

  
 USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier - photos from 1989 - 1991
Firefighting skills are emphasized for the entire crew of USS Abraham Lincoln, but nowhere is it more important than to the flight deck crews, shown here during a general quarter drill in 1990.
An F-18 Hornet attack jet lands onto the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln during flight operations in the Persian Gulf in 1991.
Christian Abraham was born and raised in Wilkes-Barre, PA. He joined the Navy in 1989 and was assigned to the USS Lincoln where he served in the photography department and the Public Affairs Office as a field video cameraman, filming news events around the ship, flight operations, and various ports-of-call.
www.gallagher.com /ejection_seat/photos_uss_lincoln.htm   (800 words)

  
 USS Lincoln Comes Home
Everett, WA, May 6--It was a day of joy and celebration for the families and crew of the USS Lincoln as it returned to its home port of Everett after being at sea for 290 days, the longest military deployment in modern times.
Adding a note of poignancy to the celebration were a number of Iraqi expatriates who came to give thanks to the men and women of the USS Lincoln for helping to secure new opportunity for their country.
USS Lincoln for helping to liberate his country.
www.vothphoto.com /recent/lincoln/lincoln.htm   (531 words)

  
 USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN operated in the Arabian Gulf and was initially scheduled to return home on January 20, 2003, but the Battle Group - while already underway home - was ordered to remain in the Gulf area to be able to participate in Operation Iraqi Freedom which started in March.
The ABRAHAM LINCOLN was ordered to proceed to the waters off Thailand and Indonesia where her embarked helicopters of HS-2 and HSL-47 were used to distribute food, medicine and other urgently needed goods.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN departed its homeport of Everett, Wash., for her 2006 WESTPAC on February 27, stopping in San Diego to load the personnel and equipment of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2 before heading west.
navysite.de /cvn/cvn72history.htm   (1921 words)

  
 USS Abraham Lincoln - CVN 72 - Unit Pages
This is Sean Pope I was in the Navy from 1992-1999 serving from the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN to NAS FALLO...
USS Abraham Lincoln - CVN 72 - History
Abraham Lincoln CVN 72 was commissioned 11 Nov 1989.
unitpages.military.com /unitpages/unit.do?id=200186   (153 words)

  
 HeraldNet: USS Lincoln gets taste of homecoming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
The Everett-based aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln pulled into Pearl Harbor Saturday morning to a small but joyous crowd of friends and families.
It was the first port visit for the Lincoln since its sixth-month deployment was extended on Jan. 1 and it was sent back to the Persian Gulf to help in the war against Iraq.
Though the welcome for the carrier was small - just a hundred or so were on hand, while more than 500 celebrated the arrival of the destroyer USS Paul Hamilton to its home port at Pearl Harbor on the same morning - many Lincoln families were equally anxious for the arrival of their sailors.
www.heraldnet.com /Stories/03/4/27/16867801.cfm   (958 words)

  
 USS Lincoln Prepares For President - CBS News
Over the last few days, the USS Lincoln has undergone as major a cleanup as can be done on a ship still at sea.
Bush is expected to look on admiringly, almost certainly, as the remaining planes jet off on their final mission of this deployment - all in advance of Friday's arrival in San Diego and then arrival in homeport of Everett, Wash., on May 6.
The commander of the carrier strike group, Rear Adm. John Kelly, says as the USS Lincoln gets closer to home, he is most proud of the sailors and their families.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/05/01/earlyshow/main551802.shtml   (941 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: A salute to the USS Abraham Lincoln
WorldNetDaily: A salute to the USS Abraham Lincoln
At the drop of a hat, the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group sped from Hong Kong to help survivors of the tsunami disaster in southern Asia.
In October 1993, Abraham Lincoln took off from the Arabian Gulf (where it was supporting the U.N.-sanctioned enforcement of the no-fly zone over southern Iraq) for Somalia.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42244   (635 words)

  
 USS Lincoln Sailors Support Relief Effort   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Jan. 13, 2005 – While servicemembers are working double-time to get supplies into and help clean up areas devastated by the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunamis, someone has to hold down the fort -- or, in this case, the aircraft carrier steaming in the Indian Ocean.
Lincoln sailors not directly participating in relief operations ashore are still finding ways to help.
These efforts are not going unnoticed by the American public, and the Lincoln's captain made sure that his crew knows it.
www.armedforces.net /Detailed/21110.html   (452 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS President Lincoln (1917-1918)
S.S. President Lincoln, a 18,168 gross ton passenger liner, was built in 1907 at Belfast, Ireland, for commercial operation by the Hamburg-American Line.
USS President Lincoln sank soon afterwards, with the loss of 26 of the more than 700 persons on board.
Alongside USS President Lincoln, at Hoboken, New Jersey, to transfer troops for transportation to France, December 1917.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/p-lncn.htm   (700 words)

  
 USS Lincoln Back From Tsunami Trip
EVERETT, Wash. - The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln returned to its home port Friday after a five-month voyage that included serving as the hub of a relief operation to help victims of the tsunami.
Hundreds of family members and friends of the crew turned out to watch as the Lincoln sailed into port, bringing with it more than 3,000 sailors.
In December, the Navy diverted the vessel to south Asia, where the Lincoln and its air wing were the hub of a relief operation to help tsunami victims.
www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,FL_lincoln_030505,00.html   (310 words)

  
 CNN.com - Commander in Chief lands on USS Lincoln - May. 2, 2003
President Bush made a landing aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln Thursday, arriving in the co-pilot's seat of a Navy S-3B Viking after making two fly-bys of the carrier.
The Lincoln, currently en route to NAS North Island, has been at sea for nearly 10 months, after participating in both the Afghanistan and Iraq war theaters.
A Viking slid off the deck of the USS Constellation on April 1; the plane's two pilots were quickly rescued and the cause of the accident -- an unspecified malfunction, the Navy said -- is under investigation.
www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/05/01/bush.carrier.landing   (1224 words)

  
 Re: USS Lincoln   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
Secondly, when an aircraft carrier is close enough to land as in this case, there is probably a bar or harbor approach pilot aboard in charge of navigation and talking on the bridge to bridge radio.
Thirdly, the ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72) has been in the Pacific Fleet since 1990 (and is one of a class of 10 NIMITZ Class carriers--the largest ships in the Navy--not second largest)--Newfoundland in on the Atlantic Side.
Fourthly, the mix of surface combatants supposedly with the carrier in the scenario below is not a standard battlegroup mix.
www.sysindia.com /forums/Jokes/posts/5476.html   (195 words)

  
 USS Lincoln Returns To Home Port - CBS News
The Lincoln was one of five carrier battle groups that launched air and missile strikes against Iraq during the war.
It was relieved by the USS Nimitz on April 10 and renewed its journey home.
Mothers and sons reunited and fathers met newborn babies for the first time as the USS Lincoln finally dropped anchor at its home port in Washington after ten months at sea, Hattie Kauffman reports.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/04/28/iraq/main551394.shtml   (637 words)

  
 USS Lincoln County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
For the next 2 years the veteran landing ship alternated operations in the western Pacific with amphibious exercises off the west coast.
From 1955 to 1960, she sailed for three tours with the 7th Fleet, made one cruise to the frigid Arctic to supply "Dew Line" installations, and participated in amphibious exercises off the west coast and Hawaii.
On 31 August 1962 she was turned over to the government of Thailand under the terms of the Military Assistance Program.
www.datasync.com /~bouchard/meships/lincolncounty.htm   (573 words)

  
 Seattle Post-Intelligencer: M.L. Lyke -- Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
So, dear readers, before "they" becomes "us," these sailors are signing off the Lincoln, taking the slingshot launch-off the flight deck to Bahrain for a couple days R&R, then onto London and home.
Saw a lot of sea, and landed aboard the fast frigate USS Reuben James to pick up mail and a couple of chaplains.
My femme journo pals pulled together a party with a USS Abe Lincoln ballcap embroidered with my name and a "fl market" cheesecake -- the mess director wouldn't let L.A. Times reporter Carol Williams buy one, but a sympathetic petty officer met her in secret on the smoking deck and slipped her one.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /lincoln/journal   (1290 words)

  
 USS Abraham Lincoln News page
It is requested that you complete and submit the attached registration form wit remittance, as this will help the planning committee to get a good handle on how many shipmates, family and friends will be attending.
Ensure that you tell the desk clerk that you are with the USS Abraham Lincoln Reunion Party for the quoted rate.
All reservation requests for rooms regardless where you are planning to stay have to be made directly with the hotel and must to be made by not later than September 20, 2004.
www.subsim.com /abe_lincoln.htm   (1014 words)

  
 USS LINCOLN NAVY OFFICER REPORTS: BUREAUCRATS-TSUNAMI
I'd like to say that this has been a rewarding experience for us, but it has not: Instead, it has been a frustrating and needlessly dangerous exercise made even more difficult by the Indonesian government and a traveling circus of so-called aid workers who have invaded our spaces.
I went in for breakfast as I usually do, expecting to see the usual crowd of ship's company officers in khakis and air wing aviators in flight suits, drinking coffee and exchanging rumors about when our ongoing humanitarian mission in Sumatra is going to end.
Ed Stanton is the pen name of a career U.S. Navy officer currently serving with the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group.
www.rumormillnews.com /cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=64405   (1182 words)

  
 Funny Uss Lincoln - Related Articles @ Funny.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
cases in lincoln court on the 17 december 2004
abraham lincoln was elected to congress in 1846
this is the aircraft carrier uss lincoln the second largest ship in the united states atlantic fleet we are accompanied by three destroyers
www.funny.co.uk /keywords/funny-uss-lincoln.html   (270 words)

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