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    Captain Terry Bragg

    This would be a really cool job (as long as he never has to holystone the deck :) )

    While growing up, Terry A. Bragg was a paperboy for the Daily News in Jacksonville.

    "One day," he recalled, "the paper paid to take all its carriers down to Wilmington, to the battleship."

    Bragg still remembers that visit. Now, he runs the place.

    The retired Navy captain officially came aboard the Battleship North Carolina Memorial in January. At the end of March, he formally took over as executive director from Capt. David Scheu, who retired after 17 years on the job.

    After a 30-year career that included commanding a guided missile frigate and later a destroyer squadron in the Pacific Fleet, Bragg finds himself in charge of a firmly anchored World War II battleship with a crew of 25 civilians -- considerably smaller, he likes to point out, than the complements of several other ship museums with far fewer visitors.
    This guy definitely has some North Carolina related historical roots

    Tar Heel roots go down deep for Bragg. One of his great-great-great-great-uncles was Braxton Bragg, the Confederate general from North Carolina for whom Fort Bragg was named. Terry Bragg's brother was born at Fort Bragg's Womack Army Hospital.

    Bragg chuckles, since he knows some locals blame Bragg for losing Wilmington to the Yankees in the Civil War. "I say, after he saw what Sherman did to Georgia, maybe he didn't want to rile the other side," he said grinning.

    Through another branch of his family tree, he's also related to Thomas Bragg, who was North Carolina governor from 1855 to 1859.
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