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To: DUMBGRUNT

> Repair estimates ranged up to three months ... Three days later, the Yorktown sailed for Midway <

That’s one thing that made America great. And one thing that couldn’t happen today.


5 posted on 06/03/2017 8:22:58 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right
Fourteen hundred welders and shipfitters swarmed aboard.

They had to be standing atop one another! While welding.

Today, we quietly say, 'get 'er done'; F OSHA...

Silent Cal, was more eloquent.

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” ― Calvin Coolidge

24 posted on 06/03/2017 9:21:51 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (GO TRUMP!)
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To: Leaning Right
"And one thing that couldn’t happen today."
25 posted on 06/03/2017 9:22:56 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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