Dan Doyle

Dan Doyle

Dan Doyle is a husband, father, grandfather, Vietnam veteran, and retired professor of Humanities at Seattle University. He taught 13 years at the high school level and 22 years at the university level. He spends his time now babysitting his granddaughter. He is a poet and a blogger as well. Dan holds an AA degree in English Literature, a BA in Comparative Literature, and an MA in Theology, and writes regularly for The Veterans Site Blog.

Articles by Dan Doyle

The United States Coast Guard's Toughest Boats and Crews: Surf Training

The United States Coast Guard's Toughest Boats ...

The training to become a surfboat operator or crewman is no easy duty. It takes 8 years of training and experience to be awarded the highly coveted "Surfman's Badge."

The United States Coast Guard's Toughest Boats ...

The training to become a surfboat operator or crewman is no easy duty. It takes 8 years of training and experience to be awarded the highly coveted "Surfman's Badge."

Kaline Hoppe: One Tough Marine

Kaline Hoppe: One Tough Marine

This young woman has the optimism and the determination of one who knows what she wants to be and the inner strength to get it done.

Kaline Hoppe: One Tough Marine

This young woman has the optimism and the determination of one who knows what she wants to be and the inner strength to get it done.

USCG Icebreakers Keeping The Great Lakes Open

USCG Icebreakers Keeping The Great Lakes Open

The United States Coast Guard is well known by those who live along the shores of the Great Lakes, and for good reasons. But it is during the winter that...

USCG Icebreakers Keeping The Great Lakes Open

The United States Coast Guard is well known by those who live along the shores of the Great Lakes, and for good reasons. But it is during the winter that...

USMC Appoints First Female Force Sgt. Maj. In Its History - Sgt. Maj. Joy Maria Kitashima

USMC Appoints First Female Force Sgt. Maj. In I...

A Marine Corps recruiter who apparently had seen something in her demeanor approached her one day and asked if she might be interested in joining the Marine Corps. She was...

USMC Appoints First Female Force Sgt. Maj. In I...

A Marine Corps recruiter who apparently had seen something in her demeanor approached her one day and asked if she might be interested in joining the Marine Corps. She was...

1st Lt. Joe Thorne - First South Dakotan to be KIA in Vietnam 1965

1st Lt. Joe Thorne - First South Dakotan to be ...

“He was a hero to thousands of South Dakota schoolboys. His death brings the war in Vietnam closer to the heart of every South Dakota citizen.”

1st Lt. Joe Thorne - First South Dakotan to be ...

“He was a hero to thousands of South Dakota schoolboys. His death brings the war in Vietnam closer to the heart of every South Dakota citizen.”

St. Michael The Archangel: Warrior, Defender, and Champion

St. Michael The Archangel: Warrior, Defender, a...

When I went off to war in Vietnam, my grandmother gave me a religious medal of St. Michael the Archangel to wear and told me to pray the prayer associated...

St. Michael The Archangel: Warrior, Defender, a...

When I went off to war in Vietnam, my grandmother gave me a religious medal of St. Michael the Archangel to wear and told me to pray the prayer associated...

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