Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Meskun, the commanding officer of Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge, speaks during the Coast Guard Cutter White Alder Memorial Service at the USS Kidd Veterans Museum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on December 7, 2016.
The event honored the 17 Coast Guard personnel who lost their lives when the cutter sank and was subsequently buried in the Mississippi River, December 7, 1968.