Remembering the USS Skagit
On May 19, 2026 — six days before our nation’s 158th Memorial Day — nine men gathered at the Skagit County Historical Museum to honor a ship named after a place that none of them were from: the USS Skagit, a Tolland-class attack cargo ship that served as a workhorse of the U.S. Navy for over two decades. This reunion was their 35th, and most likely their last — which was the reason that their gathering took place in the county that was their vessel’s namesake.