Posted on 06/11/2018 4:32:03 PM PDT by jazusamo
The USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned ship in the Navy, sits in Boston, revered by sailors and history buffs.
The second-oldest ship, the USS Pueblo, floats at a river dock in Pyongyang, still a hostage more than 50 years after North Korea seized it in a January 1968 raid in the frigid waters of the East Sea off the Hermit Kingdom’s northeastern coast.
Calls from the surviving crew to bring the ship back have amounted to naught. The Colorado legislature, protective of the ship named after one of its cities, also weighs in every year with a resolution calling for the ship’s return.
After one version passed 10 years ago, a state lawmaker got a postcard, featuring a photo of a North Korean soldier smashing his rifle butt against the head of a Western-looking man in a blue uniform. The card had a North Korean postmark and on it, in flawless English, the writer urged the politician to “come and take it, you dirty American.”
That’s actually the polite version of what was written, according to Republican state Sen. Bob Gardner from Colorado Springs, one of the sponsors of the “bring home the Pueblo” resolution this year. Mr. Gardner still marvels at the perfect, idiomatic English written on the unsigned card.
“But it proved that someone in Korea was watching our resolution even if no one in America does,” Mr. Gardner said.
As President Trump meets with in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, the possession of the USS Pueblo remains a sticking point between the two nations.
The Pentagon declined to comment on any efforts to get the Pueblo back, and referred all questions to the White House. The White House, in turn, did not respond.
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Yes. This article shows some have too much time on their hands.
We see it the same...the symbolism is important. I think all he would have to do is ask, and they might comply...it’s possible.
Yeah, that’s the ticket. Think small.
You were much closer to the situation than I was. All I did was resets and looked over the shoulders of the creeps when they slid the gear out of the racks for maintenance. I need to find that book.
Amazon has(had) it...
OR
‘The Pueblo Surrender’ by Robert A. Liston
Several books on the subject....
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