Let me join the growing list who've jumped you for your post. It's obvious that not only have you never served, you've never toured a museum ship.
I've not been to the Hornet, but I have toured her sister ship, the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi (and you can stand in the same room off the bridge where Marc Mitscher ordered the lights turned on to guide the exhausted pilots home when their planes were on fumes at the Battle of the Phillipine Sea.) We go to Carolina Beach, NC, every summer (because the USS North Carolina in the Cape Fear River. Stand in her hot engine room in midsummer and think of the guys buttoned up there in the South Pacific with the boilers runnning full blast, knowing that if the ship takes a fatal hit, you're going down with her). I've been on the USS Olympia in Philadelphia; Dewey's flaghship at Manila Bay. They have a set of footprints embossed on the bridge where the admiral stood as he gave one of the most famous commands in the history of the United States Navy: "You may fire when ready, Gridley." I've been to the U505 at Chicago's Museum of Science and industry. Even if they fought against us, you have to admire the courage of the German sailors who went to sea in their "Iron Coffins," knowing full well they had long odds of returning. And they were all volunteers.
Nope, from my humble perspective, you have no idea what you are talking about.
Oh I've served not with the squids but I've served plenty o time. And I have been to The Arizona, Texas, Yorktown, and that one in Wilmington nc. Once you've seen one you've seen them all. No need for more of my tax money going to fund yet another boondoggle.