Charleston is a wonderful beautiful city to visit.
Great food, beautiful houses and streets.
Aquarium of SC.
Great beaches like Isle of Palms.
April might be a little cool to swim but great to walk the beach.
Great place and a spectacular bridge.

Michael


On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:53:28 -0500, Johnson, Tracy
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>Crew of Hunley to be laid to rest
>
>Associated Press
>
>CHARLESTON, S.C. - As many as 50,000 people are expected to come to
Charleston in April for what organizers are calling the last Confederate
funeral - the burial of the crew of the submarine H.L. Hunley.
>
>The Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship and
Tuesday was the 140th anniversary of the Hunley mission.
>
>The vessel with its crew of eight sank on Feb. 17, 1864, after sinking the
Union blockade ship Housatonic off Charleston. The sub was raised in 2000
and brought to a conservation lab at the old Charleston Naval Base.
>
>About 2,000 people, many of them Confederate re-enactors, have signed up
to make the almost 5-mile funeral march on April 17 from Charleston's
Battery to Magnolia Cemetery.
>
>There the crew will be buried next to the remains of two other crews who
died in earlier sinkings.
>
>"We are into the home stretch now," Hunley Commission Chairman Glenn
McConnell said Monday. "Very shortly, we will reunite all three crews in
port."
>
>The Hunley sank three times during the Civil War - once after it was
swamped at its mooring, again during a test run and finally after its
sinking of the Housatonic.
>
>During the week leading up to the April 17 funeral, facial reconstructions
and biographies of the crewmen will be unveiled. There will also be
lectures, ceremonies and vigils.
>
>The public will be able to pay their respects to the crew at the aircraft
carrier Yorktown at Patriots Point on April 12 and 13, at John Wesley
United Methodist Church on April 14, the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
on April 15, and the Church of the Holy Communion on April 16.
>
>The day of the funeral, the remains of each of the crewmen will be loaded
onto a separate horse-drawn caisson for the funeral procession.
>
>"It is a funeral, not an event, not a flag rally," said Kay Long, a member
of the burial committee of the South Carolina Hunley Commission. "It will
be done with the dignity and honor that these men so richly deserve. It
will be history in the making."
>
>Information from: The Post And Courier
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>
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>BT
>
>
>Tracy Johnson
>MSI Schaevitz Sensors
>
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