As great great-granddaughter to American statesman and political theorist John C. Calhoun, Rosalie Calhoun found great sustenance in studying family history. Her ancestor served two terms as United States Vice President, under both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, something she was very proud of.

She hailed from a long line of warriors, statesmen and heroes. Her own father, Admiral William Lowndes Calhoun, was a member of Teddy Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet. He survived the Point Honda disaster of 1923, when seven Navy destroyers were impaled on a rocky California coastline in the fog. He was later honored for the crucial role he played in saving his crew and the lives of many others from the wreckage.

He then went on to become invaluable to the war effort in WWII, serving as logist

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