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USS Monitor preservation threatened due to lack of Federal funds.
The Virginian-Pilot ^ | 1/10/13 | Teresa Annas

Posted on 01/09/2014 11:15:01 PM PST by Merrittk

"Lacking federal funding to preserve artifacts from the USS Monitor, The Mariners' Museum is closing part of its conservation lab."

(Excerpt) Read more at hamptonroads.com ...


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I cannot believe this could be allowed to happen.
1 posted on 01/09/2014 11:15:02 PM PST by Merrittk
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To: Merrittk

Maybe we should be preserving Arab dhows or slaveships instead.


2 posted on 01/09/2014 11:17:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: Merrittk

http://www.dailypress.com/news/photos/dp-pictures-funding-for-the-monitor-project-halted-20140109,0,1262158.photogallery


3 posted on 01/09/2014 11:18:37 PM PST by Merrittk
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To: Merrittk

Odungoville


4 posted on 01/09/2014 11:19:18 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Merrittk

B-but the Federal government went back into business and the debt ceiling was raised, and everything is dunky hory./s


5 posted on 01/09/2014 11:35:19 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Merrittk

Hey Obama, you disgusting self-indulgent vanity -— how about contributing the cost of just ONE of your junket vacations? Or, even, how about having your wide-bodied wife fly back WITH you for a change, and put the cost of her separate flights to good use?


6 posted on 01/09/2014 11:55:23 PM PST by Ancient Wonderboy
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To: Merrittk

Gee. There was $4M ear marked for this but it got spent in Hawai’i recently on some sort of special mission or something....


7 posted on 01/10/2014 12:13:39 AM PST by llevrok (Obama 2008 : "If you vote for me, you can keep your country")
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To: Merrittk

I think with the debt we have, this should be cut, along with about 500 billion of other stuff too.

Plus, it will be more efficiently run with private money.


8 posted on 01/10/2014 1:29:28 AM PST by staytrue
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe we should be preserving Arab dhows or slaveships instead.

NASA probably has a line item in their budget for that....


9 posted on 01/10/2014 1:34:30 AM PST by GraceG
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To: Merrittk

Bet none of the big wheels are going to take any cuts in the their pay, benefits, retirement packages or perks.


10 posted on 01/10/2014 1:48:15 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Merrittk

It’s not the governments job in my book. This should be a privately funded endeavor.


11 posted on 01/10/2014 2:22:28 AM PST by maddog55
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To: Merrittk

It’s interesting that because of lack of funding they are putting the artifacts “to sleep”, covering them up, turning out the lights and not letting anyone see them.

I would think it would be more effective to put them to sleep but still allow visitors to view them.

Of course - with signs up all around saying preservation has halted do to lack of funding.


12 posted on 01/10/2014 2:50:45 AM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: Merrittk

Another government blackmail item stomp feet attitude.

If we dont get our money to control you, fck your national security.


13 posted on 01/10/2014 2:59:46 AM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Merrittk

Time to sell it to a private investor. The job will actually get done then, and he or she will still probably exhibit the final product.


14 posted on 01/10/2014 3:14:46 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people's than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun

Exactly.

The Navy raised the Monitor as a sort of enhanced training exercise. It’s time for a group to form, raise money & eventually exhibit the Monitor relics. Otherwise, they never should have raised it in the first place. (that’s my frustration showing).


15 posted on 01/10/2014 3:43:20 AM PST by Tallguy (between taglines...)
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To: PeteB570

Here in NJ the battleship New Jersey is facing similar financial issues (it didn’t help that they dodcked it in Camden, which is half jungle/half abandoned wasteland). The fact is that an increasing number of “Americans” don’t even have roots going back 30 years in this country, and relics from WASP America don’t mean anything at all to them.


16 posted on 01/10/2014 4:08:12 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Merrittk

Because it was involved in a War about Slavery. zero & just us boy are upset


17 posted on 01/10/2014 4:25:44 AM PST by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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To: Merrittk

How comes Obama’s vacations are never threatened because of lack of federal funds?


18 posted on 01/10/2014 4:43:54 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Merrittk

I am not sure this is the federal government’s job. I think it is the job of worthy citizens to step forward and fundraise.


19 posted on 01/10/2014 5:03:44 AM PST by Chickensoup (we didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: Merrittk

I believe the Hundley was restored using mostly donations.


20 posted on 01/10/2014 5:07:17 AM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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