Courtesy Story | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 12.15.2009
It was a crisp December morning in Philadelphia. A tall man with blue uniformed pants and a floatcoat of a darker shade of blue walked slowly toward the silver, icy gangway down to the concrete pier. As he comfortably advanced to a lustrous silver and black boat he smiled and waved to a younger gentleman with a brilliant orange dry suit who was marching the same way to an orange boat of......