Posted on 06/11/2018 4:32:03 PM PDT by jazusamo
The USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned ship in the Navy, sits in Boston, revered by sailors and history buffs.
The second-oldest ship, the USS Pueblo, floats at a river dock in Pyongyang, still a hostage more than 50 years after North Korea seized it in a January 1968 raid in the frigid waters of the East Sea off the Hermit Kingdoms northeastern coast.
Calls from the surviving crew to bring the ship back have amounted to naught. The Colorado legislature, protective of the ship named after one of its cities, also weighs in every year with a resolution calling for the ships return.
After one version passed 10 years ago, a state lawmaker got a postcard, featuring a photo of a North Korean soldier smashing his rifle butt against the head of a Western-looking man in a blue uniform. The card had a North Korean postmark and on it, in flawless English, the writer urged the politician to come and take it, you dirty American.
Thats actually the polite version of what was written, according to Republican state Sen. Bob Gardner from Colorado Springs, one of the sponsors of the bring home the Pueblo resolution this year. Mr. Gardner still marvels at the perfect, idiomatic English written on the unsigned card.
But it proved that someone in Korea was watching our resolution even if no one in America does, Mr. Gardner said.
As President Trump meets with in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, the possession of the USS Pueblo remains a sticking point between the two nations.
The Pentagon declined to comment on any efforts to get the Pueblo back, and referred all questions to the White House. The White House, in turn, did not respond.
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It's not a commissioned Navy ship. It's a museum ship.
My dad was a drinking buddy with CDR Bucher in Yokosuka...I have long felt that we should have dropped bunch of MK84 guided munitions on her in Pusan Harbor to put her to rest.
But maybe we will get her back.
Sure, let’s put everything else on hold to get back a rusted out ship.
Give the fat little ponce an invoice for the ship. They want to join the world, they need to pay for what they have stolen.
She does for me. Even if we take her out into the ocean and open the valves on her.
I agree nothing should hinge on her.
Decommissioned. Last time the name was used was for the Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier that finished being scrapped in Brownsville last year.
It’s hard to believe that has been 50 years ago now.
Theyre getting desperate. Word must have leaked that some positive news will come from the summit (most of the negotiations have already been done). If Trump manages to denuclearize NK, and starts turning one of the most repressive regimes on the planet into a civilized country that doesnt imprison and starve most of its citizens, it will all be for naught and a total failure if we dont get the USS Pueblo back! Trump failed! /s
Yes, we should have sunk her long ago but now we have the chance to get her back.
Thanks for your personal input on you dad and CDR Bucher.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting we put everything else on hold, bgill.
Did I say that, jump to conclusions much?
My dad was the communications officer at Yokosuka during that time as well...not a good time to be in that job.
He didn’t come home for a few weeks, or so my mom told me.
I think a request, a show of good faith, let us tow out the USS Pueblo. Why not ask?
Wow. I know. 50 years.
I hear you!
Agreed. Japan is returned its abducted citizens. America is returned the Pueblo!
Pueblo taught us how to destroy everything before giving it to the enemy, Thermite works wonders.
That bird (Pueblo) has flown.
If Kim is really serious and it seems he just may be, that should certainly be asked of him.
I was sitting above the runway in Osan, South Korea the night it was taken. If Johnson would have given the order, jets could have tried to recover that ship. The order never came. The next day we started building bunkers with sand bags.
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