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To: KC_Lion

Looks interesting. I did tour the USS Missouri when it was docked here at Bremerton,WA


30 posted on 10/05/2016 11:55:30 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SkyDancer

Wife and I toured the Missouri at Pearl Harbor about five years ago. She had just emerged from dry dock with fresh paint seemingly a quarter inch thick.
There are pictures of the surrender, and a mark on the quarter deck where MacArthur stood. A small dent in her deck armor was the only indication of where a kamikaze had hit and apparently bounced off.
The officer’s dining area featured dinnerware settings from her WW 2 past. It looked like the room was five minutes away from a full sit-down.
The bridge was more or less what you might call a “highbred” control room. The Missouri had been fitted with missiles from when the Gipper ran the White House.
Today, with the jerk we have in office, they’d likely install unisex toilets...


47 posted on 10/05/2016 1:21:10 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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