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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

"Not With a Bang..."


The USS Olympia, Admiral Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay, is literally rusting away.

Yahoo News has the story:


I find this story incredibly sad.  While in high school, I joined the US Naval Sea Cadets.  During one of our training excursions, we took a side trip to see this ship.  It was a fascinating glimpse of a pre-dreadnought era warship.

What is especially frustrating is, that with our current ballooning deficit-spending, nothing will be done to keep a piece of our nation's history from disolving.

Or as Comrade Karla put it:

Mind you, we have billions for questionable, nonsensical projects but nothing for this, apparently.

A short history of the Battle of Manila Bay:


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