My son was on fall break so I took some time to head to several places that I thought were "neat" First we went to visit my brother at Fort Rucker, then headed to the U.S.S. Alabama. That was a real neat visit, Both of us really enjoyed that trip. It was awesome actually seeing an actual battleship. Age wise the ship only had an operational life of 4 years. I kinda wondered if it would be difficult to bring the ship to operational duty if necessary.
We walked around the ship and saw a bunch of cool stuff, I will have to find a way to create a link to photobucket or something like that While we were there, I saw a gentleman doing a book signing , His name is Glenn Frazier, he is a survivor of the Bataan Death March. He has a website Here
Speaking to him, I was humbled, here was a person that lived through something that most people didn't survive and was a pleasure to talk to. Here was an embodiment of the greatest generation. I have a copy of his book and finished reading it, now my son is reading it.
Good to view that history... and It would cost MORE than you believe to reconfigure the ship to meet today's EPA and habitability requirements... sigh
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