On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:45:50 -0400, Gene Kearns wrote:


As this ship serves with distinction, it would be deserving if it was
treated to the opportunity afforded the following ships:

USS West Virginia
USS Nevada
USS Tennessee
USS California
USS Maryland
USS Pennsylvania

Remember your history lessons?

All those ships were at Pearl Harbor, and several were at the Japanese
surrender in Tokyo Bay.

Remember Scapa Flow where the German High Seas Fleet was scuttled after
WWI? I read something recently that I found interesting. Apparently,
because those ships were forged before the nuclear age, they don't
contain any radioactive isotopes. Some of the metal is now being
salvaged for use in space probes and other sensitive mechanisms. From
the Battle of Jutland, to deep space, who would have known?