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Posted on 08/06/2002 5:23:46 AM PDT by Billie
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I once attended a wedding in Pretty Place, NC and that photo reminds me of it so very much. The wedding was in an open chapel and no matter where you sat you saw those beautiful hills and mountains and flora. It was very aptly named, Pretty Place. I certainly have never been any place prettier. It was in SW NC.
Today I switch over from dsl to cable, so I will be off line for awhile. I am hoping to be back soon, blitzing around the internet in warp speed. :-)
God's blessings on all of you. Have a wonderful day!
It must be that figment thingie. :) I wanted you to know I'm trying to answer your mail. : (
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/728422/posts
Silt-filled turret of USS Monitor raised from Atlantic
By SONJA BARISIC, Associated Press Writer
August 5, 2002 6:10 pm
Excerpt:
HATTERAS, N.C. -- The silt-packed turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised Monday from the Atlantic floor, nearly 140 years after the historic warship sank during a New Year's storm.
The turret, the largest and last retrievable artifact, was raised at the end of a heavy cable attached to a crane on a 300-foot work barge.
A Civil War-era American flag fluttered from the lifting frame and water poured out of the turret as it hung over the ocean before it was lowered onto the barge deck. Workers and divers aboard the barge cheered as the turret was swung to a cradle, and a Navy helicopter carrying military photographers hovered overhead.
The turret-raising was the climax of a multi-year salvage operation run by the U.S. Navy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which controls the underwater sanctuary where the wreckage is located.
I guess Mother Nature preserved this thing in the mud all those 140 years!
Film producer D. J. Roller takes a look at what it takes to film at a depth of 234 feet in the Atlantic Ocean, where the USS Monitor has rested since she went down in a gale on New Year's Eve, 1862. See also Saving the Monitor, by John Broadwater, manager of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, who leads an ongoing effort to raise and preserve key parts of the deteriorating ironclad.
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