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2010-09-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

USS Olympia, 2-war naval veteran, battles for survival - Scrap heap likely

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Posted by Water Modem 2010-09-07 10:31|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 That class of ship is one of the very first steps in the construction of the modern warship. Can't they declare it to be a historic monument or some thing? I don't know it's battle history, but if any thing, I would think, despite its size, the Smithsonian would be interested in it.

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-09-07 15:48|| 2010-09-07 15:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Laurence of the Rats and I visited that ship when we went to Philly way back when. I thought it was a grand ship, built with style and elegance. It'd be a shame for it to be allowed to rot away.

Posted by Silentbrick 2010-09-07 15:48|| 2010-09-07 15:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Surely the USNavy-DOD can do something to save her - perhaps another monument for the Naval Academy or Pearl Harbor, etc.

The OLYMPIA symbolizes Amer's rise from CONTINENTALISM [settling the West] to INTERNATIONAL POWER STATUS via the 1898 War agz Spain + future "Teddy-ism" [POTUS Theodore "Can Do/Amer Built the Panama Canal Just Becuz It Can" Roosevelt].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-09-07 18:37|| 2010-09-07 18:37|| Front Page Top

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