why, once USS McCain is repaired she will be a usable warship. Nothing can be done to USS Pueblo to make her of any use to the Navy. All the Navy would do is sell her to the breakers.
Eh. I don’t think that is it. I think the USS Pueblo should be buried at sea, out in the Pacific. Cut her rusty veins and let the water run in.
I admit to being sentimental about ships. I have always felt, even from when I was a kid, that they were more than just metal and gray paint. It has always made me melancholy to see rusty old warships just waiting to be broken up.
I saw a picture some yeas back of a WWII heavy cruiser being cut up for scrap, and they had taken her bow off back to turret #1. It bothered me. There was something more to it than just blowtorches cutting off metal...almost as if a face had been disfigured by cutting off the nose.
But I know it is just sentimentality. It is a flaw I have.