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Posted by Paul
on 10/25/2009, 8:28 am, in reply to "Yes..."
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Yes, of course this is a subject that should follow civil discourse. We can debate and maintain courtesy.
I love history, and certainly regret the loss of many wonderful heritage buildings etc. Progress does not require the destruction of everything that is old. But to follow your reasoning, should we have preserved everyFLETCHER Class destroyer ever built? Should New York City look the same as it did 100 years ago? Should a society, and a government spend the bulk of its income struggling to preserve what is old?
So one needs to face reality and be practical.
In the case of the IOWAs there are four of them. Four very large ships that are basically the same. Tearing down the Empire State Building would be a national disgrace. There is only one. But four identical ships is an entirely different thing.
Over time, these four cannot all practically support themselves. Sad as it may be, we must face the reality that there is simply not enough money nor enough interest to preserve all the museum ships that now exist and still add more, as yet more vessels become "historic." Time and nature are hard on things that float in the sea. Without substantial funding these ships will eventually rust away. Faced with that hard reality just what should be saved and what given up? Would it be better to keep all these ships and let them all gradually deteriorate from lack of care, like the YORKTOWN, to the point where they must be destroyed, or would it not be more prudent to try to allocate limited resources and preserve those that can be? Dollars spent on the four IOWAs, whether tourist, government, or contribution are, at least to some degree, taking dollars away from other museum ships and from each other. In the end that could result in the loss of more, not less, heritage ships.
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: the justification - in my view - yours might
: differ - is that items of heritage should be
: preserved. This is particualry important in
: what is still a relatively young country
: such as the US. For example, how many old
: structures of historical or cultural
: significance are there in the US that are
: more than, say, 100 hundreds years old?
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: Trashing the old, or tearing it down because
: it is old, or because of cost alone,
: ultimately means a country looses its
: heritage and any sense of historical
: context.
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: Freedom of speech and thought gives you the
: right to disagree of course!
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: Can you give some solid justification?
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: The British saved NO battleships. But if
: the
: Iowa was scrapped, we'd still have
: MISSOURI,NEW JERSEY,WISCONSIN,NORTH
: CAROLINA, ALABAMA, MASSACHUSETTS,and TEXAS.
: Do we really need to keep all four of the
: IOWA's as museum ships?
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: the UK for scrapping Vanguard, if the Iowa
: is
: scrapped! Heritage of this value should be
: retained.
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: Does this mean the "Iowa" is to be
: scrapped?
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: David K. Haynes
: October 23, 2009
: 11:36 a.m. CDT
: DHaynes101@aol.com
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