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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The very least of our concerns.
It was a sad day when President Kennedy was assassinated and LBJ acceded to the presidency.
Hat tip to your Pop.
An interesting gig.
The USS Arizona was decommissioned on 12/29/1941 and stricken on 12/01/1942.
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/SHIPDETAILS/SHIPSDETAIL_BB_39_1820.HTML
It makes you realize just how short life really is. In the blink of an eye, or so it seems to retrospect, time has flown by, and so much has changed.
Agree, on that fateful day my brother and I delivered 4 editions ofthe Detroit Free Press in less than 8 hours. The news of the day was changing that fast.
Richardson made a huge gaffe when he went onboard the USS Pueblo.
> I don’t know why we haven’t hit that with about 10 Tomahawk cruise missiles many years ago. <
Thread winner.
I stand corrected. I was always told it was still carried on the active rolls.
He was a good man...I miss him every day. Been gone 20 years...how time flies!
Well, he had a very good life...:)
Amen to that.
I was a fairly newly minted sailor in the US Navy at the time. I was SURE that LBJ would threaten NorKor with nuclear obliteration if they didn’t release the ship and return its crew immediately.
Boy did my Commander-in-Chief ever disappoint me!
I became disillusioned with ALL democrats from that time forward.
Should have been a pre-condition for having the talks in the first place.
They’ve used it for a museum to humiliate us. At least, if nothing else it won’t be used for that, anymore.
Yes it does. It’s strange how we remember a lot about a day like that, I guess it’s the shock of it.
It was a day off for me and I was waxing my car in the garage and listening to the radio and the guy was nearly shouting the president had been shot, it was next to unbelievable.
When I was maybe ten years old, I remembered reading about the Panama Canal Treaty and how it had som milestone only ten years away, and I remember thinking “Ha! That will never arrive...”
The crypto gear on the USS Pueblo was also compromised by the Walker Spy Ring. I worked with that NSA gear in the late Seventies and it is so hopelessly outdated now, I'm sure, even your humor is lost on most people.
Yep, LBJ was a crook in my view and a terrible president. I’ve never voted for a Dem and like you he was part of the reason.
I’m glad that you are not at the helm. Check out where Pusan is located!
Trump should tell him “We’re coming to tow the Pueblo back... stay out of our way”
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