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August 29, 2005

USS Iowa not good enough for San Francisco - city says take that dirty war machine elsewhere!

San Francisco city supervisors voted 8-3 last month to oppose taking in the retired battleship USS Iowa, citing local opposition to the Iraq war and the military's stance on gays, among other things. I hadn't hear about this before today, but it has got me riled up.

This ship is a piece of American military history almost beyond compare. It earned nine battle stars for World War II service and two for Korean service. Men died on that ship in foreign seas for your rights and freedoms, and now the city supervisors have the gall to dishonor that sacrifice because they don't like the military's stance on gays? Or because they don't agree with the way our troops are being used in Iraq? Boy does this piss me off. I really don't care if you are opposed to the war in Iraq - that's one of the things veterans fought for, is your right to that opinion. But what does this serve? What cause gains from this? Freedom? Democracy? Peace?

No. Pettiness and division, is all.

Thank you to Elephant In My Coffee for a story I had not heard about anywhere else.

From the AP news story:

Veterans groups and history buffs had hoped that tourists in San Francisco could walk the same teak decks where sailors dodged Japanese machine-gun fire and fired 16-inch guns that helped win battles across the South Pacific...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a former San Francisco mayor, helped secure $3 million to tow the Iowa from Rhode Island to the Bay Area in 2001 in hopes of making touristy Fisherman's Wharf its new home.

Whoah. I am agreeing with Senator Feinstein!

More from my buddy Senator Feinstein:

It is a very petty decision. This isn't the San Francisco that I've known and loved and grew up in and was born in,

You mean the San Francisco that flourished in part due to the presence of the United States military at Naval Air Station Alameda, the Presidio, Naval Air Station Moffett Field, and Mare Island? The San Francisco that has been a home for the Navy for over a hundred years? No, I guess it isn't, and for that I am very sorry.

Wulf Posted by Wulf on August 29, 2005 at 09:12 PM

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I found an amusing commentary on this story... it's just a brief comment and a link, but I needed to see anything amusing in this, so I thank the untergeek.
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Posted by: Wulf at August 29, 2005 9:49 PM

Well look on the bright side. The armed forces allways bring revenue to the area they are in. if the good ppl (sarcastic snicker) there dont want the ship I am sure we wouldnt mind it in New York Harbor or even in Oakland.

Posted by: isiah of Buffalo at September 1, 2005 11:57 PM

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