Site map graphic from the original homepage.

American Legacy Magazine, February 1996

An award from Geocities in 1998

The Proudly We Served website launched on August 1, 1997. It was hosted by Geocities, one of the first free website hosting services on the web. Geocities was later purchased by Yahoo!

The site won a number of Geocities awards and was featured on boston.com. It has been recognized by The History Channel in the US and Canada's History Television. In 2000, the domain name ussmason.org was purchased and the site has been hosted by Digital Space ever since.

The area of the website entitled "The Mason Story" is based on the narrative I produced for a National Park Service exhibit dedicated to the USS Mason in 1995. This led to the organizing of a crew's reunion in Boston in May 1995.

The exhibit moved to the USS Constitution Museum and was mounted there into the Fall of 1995. In February 1996, the exhibit travelled to New York City where it served as the backdrop for the launch of American Legacy Magazine that month at the Forbes Galleries.

Although the exhibit was largely dismantled, elements remain in use. Currently, visitors can see some of the photos from the exhibit in the National Park Service Visitor Center at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston.

Proudly We Served/USSMason.org has had almost 60000 visitors.