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To: Fred Hayek

Most “Naval Shipyards” that I have seem are PRETTY crappy!


21 posted on 01/19/2011 10:55:55 AM PST by US Navy Vet
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To: US Navy Vet
“Most “Naval Shipyards” that I have seem are PRETTY crappy!”

My Dad retired from Bremerton and my brother is in his 28th year there. I've been to many a family day at PSNSY, and if you mean by “crappy” that the buildings are old, dirty, drafty, smelly, loud, then you are correct. But keep in mind, many of the buildings were built between 1929-1939, and what a heroic job the men and women who worked in those buildings did during WWII. Building new ships and repairing badly damaged ships and sending them back out to sea in unbelievable time. Including my Dad's ship that was badly damaged by a kamikaze. He was proud of the work they did, which is why is went back their after the war to look for work.

Those old, dirty, drafty, and yes crappy buildings are that, - but they are so much more to the people that worked there and to the ghost that they say walk those floors.

34 posted on 01/19/2011 11:35:36 AM PST by NavyCanDo (Jan 2013 - Sarah Palin sees the Potomac from Her House)
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