Posted on 06/11/2018 4:32:03 PM PDT by jazusamo
The very least of our concerns.
It was a sad day when President Kennedy was assassinated and LBJ acceded to the presidency.
Hat tip to your Pop.
An interesting gig.
The USS Arizona was decommissioned on 12/29/1941 and stricken on 12/01/1942.
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/SHIPDETAILS/SHIPSDETAIL_BB_39_1820.HTML
It makes you realize just how short life really is. In the blink of an eye, or so it seems to retrospect, time has flown by, and so much has changed.
Agree, on that fateful day my brother and I delivered 4 editions ofthe Detroit Free Press in less than 8 hours. The news of the day was changing that fast.
Richardson made a huge gaffe when he went onboard the USS Pueblo.
> I dont know why we havent hit that with about 10 Tomahawk cruise missiles many years ago. <
Thread winner.
I stand corrected. I was always told it was still carried on the active rolls.
He was a good man...I miss him every day. Been gone 20 years...how time flies!
Well, he had a very good life...:)
Amen to that.
I was a fairly newly minted sailor in the US Navy at the time. I was SURE that LBJ would threaten NorKor with nuclear obliteration if they didn’t release the ship and return its crew immediately.
Boy did my Commander-in-Chief ever disappoint me!
I became disillusioned with ALL democrats from that time forward.
Should have been a pre-condition for having the talks in the first place.
They’ve used it for a museum to humiliate us. At least, if nothing else it won’t be used for that, anymore.
Yes it does. It’s strange how we remember a lot about a day like that, I guess it’s the shock of it.
It was a day off for me and I was waxing my car in the garage and listening to the radio and the guy was nearly shouting the president had been shot, it was next to unbelievable.
When I was maybe ten years old, I remembered reading about the Panama Canal Treaty and how it had som milestone only ten years away, and I remember thinking Ha! That will never arrive...
The crypto gear on the USS Pueblo was also compromised by the Walker Spy Ring. I worked with that NSA gear in the late Seventies and it is so hopelessly outdated now, I'm sure, even your humor is lost on most people.
Yep, LBJ was a crook in my view and a terrible president. I’ve never voted for a Dem and like you he was part of the reason.
I’m glad that you are not at the helm. Check out where Pusan is located!
Trump should tell him “We’re coming to tow the Pueblo back... stay out of our way”
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