Joe wrote:

What is better? 5 million in scrap steel, or 92 million a year in
economic benefits?


Yep... whatever the economic justification, it's more
fitting end for proud warship than to be melted down to make
razor blades.


One thing I wonder about, in 200 years will people be
touring the wreck, thinking that the U.S. had some kind of
major naval battle in the Gulf?

But I understand what you are saying. When they sunk my ship (USS
Samuel Gompers AD-37) you would have thought they would have removed
the 3 35,000 pound anchors.


Yeah, if you'd been able to scrounge up just one of those
anchors, take a sledgehammer and pound it out flat, you
could make two Red Clouds out of it!

Fresh Breezes- Doug King