To: bnelson44
My Brother in Law was on the USS New Orleans during Pearl Harbor.
The Chaplain started the prayer "Praise The Lord and Pass the Ammunition".
Later in the war, a torpedo blew the entire bow off this Fine Ship between the #1 and 2 turrets.
They saved the ship by backing it into an atoll and making a false bow with palm trees and junk.
They made half speed to Australia where a new bow was installed.
He was transfered to the USS Laws and spent the rest of the war on it.
4 posted on
12/06/2006 5:25:01 PM PST by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Prayers today don't have too be very different. as tho the jihadists who viciously attacked the United States on 9/11, Praise the lord and blast them to Perdition!
18 posted on
12/06/2006 6:44:47 PM PST by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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