Posted on 05/27/2010 1:34:22 PM PDT by llevrok
She needs to be saved. Our country’s history is not being taught to our kids and all historical evidence is being systematically destroyed.
I’d love to see her tied up next to USS North Carolina in Wilmington or USS Alabama in Mobile.
Damn!
er....excuse me...thought this was about Olympia Snowe.
Carry on!
I visited the Olympia earlier this month. It’s quite fascinating and the interior of the ship open to the public appears to be in good condition. I’m shocked and surprised anyone is suggesting the ship should be scrapped or sunk. Such a thing is outrageous.
As for the Mikasa, which I’ve also visited: it’s not afloat. It’s encased in concrete and is therefore on dry land, at Yokosuka south of Tokyo. In my opinion, the interior spaces on the Mikasa aren’t as well preserved as those on Olympia.
We could afford funding to maintain important historic items, if government employees weren’t retiring in their 50s with nearly 100% of pay plus lifetime health care, and then their spouse afterwards.
The saving grace here is that Louisiana can't get a permit from the Feds done quickly for some barrier dunes to contain oil . It could be decades before making this ship a reef at that pace.
Not true.
They are more important, more profitable as museums than $200 million dollar “art” projects (er, graffiti contests) in the inner city for juvenile delinquents....
Tow it to Bremerton or San Diego!....
I remember reading, many years ago, a parody history book that quoted that line, then said, "Unfortunately for the Spanish, Gridley was ready."
Yikes! I was on the Olympia as a kid. Pointed it out proudly everytime I drove by on I-95. It’d be sad to see it go.
My son's on the Olympia, just not that one.
Save the ship... make it a Hooters.
Seriously, I hate to see any of these old girls go to scrap..... but nothings for free.
“That would be a tragedy but these ship museums never are profitable enough to maintain a ship.”
And do we keep things in museums only based upon their profit? The land at Gettysburg would make a great subdivision. This would truly be as bad as sinking the original USS Constitution, Old Ironsides.
Of all the absolute garbage the government spends money on,,, they would sink this ship?
We hand it out money like *confetti* to ungrateful african dictators,,,also to North Korea,, promise 43 BILLION to the UN for Global warming, we buy rifles and Grenade launchers for the PLO,,
Probably the money the US govt spends on condoms and syringes for addicts would restore this treasure many times over.
How about another crazy INSANE idea,, sell Pelosi’s 757 with free liquor, she flies commercial and the USS Olymia is saved!
He is a lucky man.
As a resident of the city of olympia, please offer my thanks for his service AND my apologies when our #@!% commie city council refused to let her call about 5 years ago.
Given obozo’s peace through diplomacy approach ... the Olympia may have a lot of company.
I played Monopoly with that ship!
ships of that era had such great lines !
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky;
Beneath it rung the battle shout,
And burst the cannon’s roar;—
The meteor of the ocean air
Shall sweep the clouds no more.
Her deck, once red with heroes’ blood,
Where knelt the vanquished foe,
When winds were hurrying o’er the flood,
And waves were white below,
No more shall feel the victor’s tread,
Or know the conquered knee;—
The harpies of the shore shall pluck
The eagle of the sea!
Oh, better that her shattered bulk
Should sink beneath the wave;
Her thunders shook the mighty deep,
And there should be her grave;
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the god of storms,
The lightning and the gale!
Old Ironsides By Oliver Wendell Holmes
September 16, 1830
As you can see warship preservation is a long-standing problem. Both America and Hartford were lost due to negligence, and Oregon through stupidity. At least the state of Texas is doing something about its namesake battleship.
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