Sunday, December 2, 2012

Enterprise Retired

After 51 years of tough service, the USS Enterprise was retired from active service yesterday. She was a one of a kind, and a milestone in Navy history. Her list of achievements goes back to the Cuban Missle Crisis, and is paused now as she awaits her fate, defueling and scrapping, unless all hell breaks loose as the world no longer fears America.
Fiscal irresponsibility guarantees there will be no Enterprise floating museum. Such a memorial is no longer affordable. The costs of making a nuclear powered vessel full of asbestos safe are astronomical.
The Legend has served us well, from its inaguration into the cold war, through Vietnam, Iraq, and a host of threats, she and her crew have stood firm in their resolve to keep America free. Ironic that this icon of free Enterprise is going away as our nation sinks into the death spiral known as Socialism, the spineless version of communism, the failed economic idea of fools.
To all who served on her, Thank you.

1 comment:

Spartacus said...

"Fiscal irresponsibility guarantees there will be no Enterprise floating museum."

Given the idiocy that happens in D.C., such parking Space Shuttles in New York & California to serve as museums while the Johnson Space Center in Texas doesn't get one I would not at all be surprised to find the Enterprise transported to and parked in a land locked state. West Virginia comes to mind since the former klansman Robert Byrd managed to get a coast guard station placed in that state.