[Hallicrafters] OT USS Alabama

[Larry WA9VRH]

Hi Bob,

I am sure the submarine USS Alabama has done well.... However if I remember 
correctly in Vietnam and also the first Gulf war one of the WWII battleships 
was pressed into service to pound the crapola out of the other side... and 
did a mighty fine job!

Give some credit to your 50 or so year old elders!  Yes it was updated but 
still the same basic steel.

Go stand on the Missouri and look at the Arizona..  Then go stand on the 
monument over the Arizona and watch the fuel bubbles still arise even today.

Draw your own conclusions..

73!  Larry WA9VRH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rbethman" <rbethman at comcast.net>
To: "Larry WA9VRH" <wa9vrh at dishmail.net>
Cc: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>; "Jim" <jbrannig at optonline.net>; "Glen 
Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>; "W8DBFDuane Fischer" <dfischer at usol.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] OT USS Alabama


> Larry,
>
> You should read the UNCLASSIFIED record of the commissioned USS Alabama - 
> Ohio Class Nuclear Submarine!
>
> You will take away a "different" perspective.
>
> Folks just do NOT know what the SSBNs have done and where they have gone.
>
> It is NOT picking "fly specks out of pepper" by any means.
>
> Bob - N0DGN
>
>
>
> Larry WA9VRH wrote:
>> So is this picking fly specks out of pepper??  So it isn't the CURRENTLY 
>> commissioned ship. The CURRENTLY non-commissioned Alabama has real 
>> stories and battle scars.... Something the "NEW" Alabama can only 
>> hopefully attain some day... However for the rest of us we hope she never 
>> get's that chance....
>>
>> The Alabama will in most peoples mind be the battleship that servered 
>> this country well commissioned or not!
>>
>> 73 Larry WA9VRH
>
> -- 
> Bob - NØDGN
>