What a glorious old girl. Thanks for posting.
Stella - my best girl ever.
11/04/1994 - 12/23/2010
Don't wanna get shot by the police?
"Stop Resisting Arrest!"
Glad she made it out of Suison- I hate watching metal rust.
What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
-- Ayn Rand, Anthem (Chapter 11)
The Iowa class battleship was, IMHO, the most beautiful warship ever built, bar none. There have been some lookers but none other ever had the lines that these ladies have.
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
George S. Patton
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
John F. Kennedy
?A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment, and is designed for the special use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics.?
George Fitch. c 1916.
Awesome pictures thanks for posting. My father was a part of the last crew to serve on the USS Missouri BB-63. Got to see her while in Hawaii a few years back. Went on a below deck tour that my father actually ended up giving since the tour guide didn't have a clue what they were talking about. Too bad these massive beauties are all being decomissioned.