Contributed photo U.S. Navy Office of Community Outreach Medical Lake graduate Taylor Ruggles is serving on the world's oldest commissioned warship during the Fourth of July.
BOSTON – A 2016 Medical Lake High School graduate and Medical Lake, Wash., native will celebrate America's 242nd year of independence as part of a hand-picked Navy crew serving on the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat, the USS Constitution.
Seaman Taylor Ruggles, a gunner's mate, serves aboard the 220-year-old Boston-based ship named by President George Washington to honor the Constitution of the United States of America. Famously known as "Old Ironsides," the Constitution is a wooden-hulled three-masted heavy frigate that originally launched in 1797.
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