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Bruce Felknor  Bruce Felknor was a radioman in the merchant
marine in World War II. After ten years in public relations,
became an expert on election ethics as Executive Director of the
Fair Campaign Practices Committee, and published the classic
Dirty Politics. He spent many years as an Executive and Editor
with Encyclopedia Britannica.  Bruce Felknor crossed the bar
09/27/08  Felknor edited the comprehensive The U.S. Merchant
Marine at War, 1775-1945 published by Naval Institute Press,
Annapolis, Maryland, 1998 Book Review  The Forgotten Heroes of
World World War II  By Bruce L. Felknor  National Maritime Day
is celebrated every year on May 22. In its 72 years it has
become the nation's most ignored national day, memorializing its
most forgotten great accomplishment, and honoring the most
ignored vital element of its military capability, the U.S.
Merchant Marine.  A joint resolution of Congress created it to
celebrate the beginning of transocean