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I just finished reading this article and thought I would post it for all. It's an amazing read, well worth it. The letter in the beginning brought a tear to my eye. What a very different and much greater America we were then...the WWII generation truly earned and deserved the title "The Greatest Generation."
I just finished reading this article and thought I would post it for all. It's an amazing read, well worth it. The letter in the beginning brought a tear to my eye. What a very different and much greater America we were then...the WWII generation truly earned and deserved the title "The Greatest Generation."
Thank you that was fascinating and moving. I wish there was more of this kind of substantial content in news on a regular basis - contextual and very informative. My father served in Pacific Theater from mid 1943 to late 1944 with Army Air Force and in his later years would talk a little about what he experienced. He talked of terrible landings from the LSTs in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. My mom would tell us stories about him rolling out of bed whenever an airplane would fly over the house during night time and nightmares when she would have to wake him from reliving something horrific.
Too many fail to understand the sacrifices throughout history of those before them, and the letter - in particular, is likely to not be allowed to be read in a public school nowadays from all the numbskulls with emotional disabilities rather than experiencing history as it was.
I just finished reading this article and thought I would post it for all. It's an amazing read, well worth it. The letter in the beginning brought a tear to my eye. What a very different and much greater America we were then...the WWII generation truly earned and deserved the title "The Greatest Generation."
Just hope this valiant old ship is deep enough that pirate salvagers don’t get to her. Unfortunately this has happened to other historic WWII warships.
Just hope this valiant old ship is deep enough that pirate salvagers don’t get to her. Unfortunately this has happened to other historic WWII warships.
Last year this team found my uncle's ship, The USS Juneau. Your thoughts mirror my own, that the dead won't be disturbed by scavengers.
I don't think there are many scavengers who can reach ships at several thousand feet. The only rewards for scavenging a ship are to get scrap and artifacts with no provenance, which are worth the effort when ships are shallow, or to bring up provenanced artifacts, which would have negative worth when taken from war-grave ships. Even the stuff 'legitimately' taken from Titanic has a clouded image; some people would not visit the traveling exhibit because it was grave-robbing. That would go triple for military vessels such as Wasp and Juneau, and the USN would not stand around idle besides.
I like to think those sites are safe from all but the biggest idiots, and Davy Jones waits for them.
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