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  • Despite tears, Inchon to be sunk

    01/13/2004 11:30:47 AM PST · by SwinneySwitch · 46 replies · 1,965+ views
    Corpus Christi Caller-Times ^ | January 13, 2004 | Brad Olson
    Naval Station Ingleside ship will be used for target practice David Fix knows the USS Inchon has served its time. He knows the Navy can't hold onto it forever. But that doesn't keep him from crying when he thinks about it going down - crying so much that he can't even utter the words to memorialize it. Like most sailors, Fix of Lancaster, Pa., who served aboard the Inchon from 1981 to 1983, remembers the ship and his time aboard it with fondness. The USS Inchon, formerly a centerpiece of the Mine Warfare Command fleet in the U.S. Navy, is...