I’m celebrating the holiday in San Diego with Frosty and Gillian’s families (wedding Saturday). One of Frosty’s relatives works at the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum. This morning we showed up before the museum opened and got a guided tour from the PR director. They were expecting 3,000 people that day, so the personal attention was really nice. Midway was commissioned two weeks after the end of WWII and decommissioned after the conclusion of Desert Storm. In Desert Storm it served as the launch platform for the first missions over Iraq. We got to see the Admiral’s quarters which haven’t been opened for public viewing yet. The selection of aircraft is interesting as well. The H-3 Sea King pictured after the break was responsible for recovering 5 Apollo capsules, including Apollo 13.