WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news: By Capt. W. Russell Webster, U.S. Coast Guard retired The Long Blue Line blog series has been publishing Coast Guard history essays for over 15 years. To access hundreds of these service stories, visit the Coast Guard Historian's Office's Long Blue Line online archives, located here: THE LONG BLUE LINE (uscg.mil) (https://www.history.uscg.mil/Research/THE-LONG-BLUE-LINE/) In an unassuming bu  more