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New York Gov. Cuomo Promises to Organize a “Citizens’ Fleet” to Block Offshore Drilling; Cites Winston Churchill at Dunkirk

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, just promised to organize a “citizens’ fleet” to block offshore drilling proposed by the Trump Administration. “I’m going to commission a citizen fleet to stop it just as Winston Churchill did at Dunkirk,” he said, recalling the heroic rescue of British and Allied troops from France in the early days of the Second World War. Cuomo called Trump’s decision to permit offshore drilling “an unacceptable risk,” and said he would organize fishing and recreational vessels to stop it in a speech attacking the Administration’s environmental and energy policies. The Administration’s policy would open…

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Meet Trimilia, One of the Real “Little Ships” that Were the Heroes of Dunkirk

The evacuation of surrounded British and French troops from the embattled beaches of Dunkirk by hundreds of little boats crossing the English Channel in the opening days of the Second World War has been dramatized lately in the movies Dunkirk and Darkest Hour. In fact, answering a call from Winston Churchill to save their countrymen, some 700 civilian “little ships” – from pleasure craft to a paddle schooner – rescued 338,226 men from Dunkirk over five days in 1940, amid dive bombing and staffing from the German Luftwaffe and artillery and rifle fire on shore. One of the first boats…