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Gene Kearns wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:43:17 -0400, John H penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:48:46 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:
|
|On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:09:11 -0500, thunder penned the following well
|considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
|
||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.
|
|Bingo! Those ships, sunk at Pearl Harbor, arose again and avenged the
|attack on America by taking the battle back to the enemy. They won
|dozens of battle stars and other awards for meritorious service. I
|hope the same for the USS New York.
|
|IMHO, they should all have been converted to museums (locally, like
|the USS North Carolina), rather than be sold for scrap.
|
|Apparently, John needs a primer on history.... and Loogy? We'll, he's
|still just being a demonstrably ignorant idiot.
|
|I am glad that's what you meant. On the surface, it sounded much like
|something Krause would have said. I should have known better.
|
|Sorry about that.

Not a problem..... and if you do make the move to NC, you'll be
closer to the USS NC museum and hopefully it will be enhanced by the
addition of the USS Kitty Hawk. Charleston's Patriots Point is a good
show, too!


Nice golf course too. You'll like hole 17.
 
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