The Top of the Mark rooftop bar at the Mark Hopkins hotel is the birthplace of “The Squadron Bottle,' where servicemen would buy and leave a bottle of whiskey in the care of the bartender, so the next
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The popular bar was often the last spot servicemen would have a drink before deploying. It is also the place where wives, mothers and daughters would watch from "Weepers’ Corner" as their loved ones headed out to sea."He basically said I’d like to restart the tradition and he got a bottle of bourbon and we had one bottle," said Pace. "We just had it on display and it really then just took off from there.
Now, any military member or Veteran can take a shot from one of the bottles. They’re asked to also write an entry into a journal with a personal message or memory to comrades. "I am an American airman, wingman, leader, warrior," one of the journal entries read. "I will never leave a brother behind. I will never falter, and I will not fail."
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