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Posted by Steve T
on 10/26/2009, 4:02 pm, in reply to "Re: Yes..."
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I have a friend who served on the Iowa and although he would be sad to see her go, he would hate to see her rust away as an underfunded museum.
Personally, I would like to see more effort put into preserving the USS Olympia. She is the last of the Spanish/American war veterans and as such she represents an era of our navy's history. As does the USS Constitution, which represents our navy's early history.
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: Yes, of course this is a subject that should
: follow civil discourse. We can debate and
: maintain courtesy.
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: 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 every FLETCHER 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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: --Previous Message--
: 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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