Thank you for your service. Job well done, she is still afloat. Even if not for long.
There is something a little sad when the navy sends a ship with damn near a half a century service to the breakers.
Yes
I feel much the same way. I know it sounds odd, but I was glad the America was used as a test target.
In my mind’s eye, the vision of her sitting at the bottom of the ocean, always deployed, submerged in her element, rather than being cut up, is a comforting thing to me.
What is it about a ship? Some people would say it is only a big hunk of metal. But in my mind, the one I spent the most time on is more than that. I used to read about ships having a personality and men would cry when they were sunk in battle and they watched them go down.
I didn’t fully understand it. But after being on one, there is something else.