Well I haD very little time to work with since the Museum
was closing early due to its being Christmas eve.. The top
superstructure and old deck wood of the Cabot was on the
floor of the Naval Air Museum in P'cola.. I took some shots
of the area that I'll get on the list or get out on the web
somehow for all to have a look see.. These got donated to the
Museum during a refurb of the Cabot from what I was told so
the ship still retains the newer items ..
Because of the unpopularity of military things save to such
a narrow interest group its hard to keep examples of all things
that should be retained as lessons to future generations..
We as a race have been stupid enough to allow the extinion of
living creatures and plants as we charge ahead in "progress"
Its also too bad we fail to head the words of " those that fail
to remember the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it"
Failing to keep the examples of what our forefathers used to save
our way of life is a bad mistake since once their gone their gone
forever
Bob B
>From: DDoyle9570@aol.com
>To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org> (Military Vehicles Mailing List)
>Subject: Re: [MV] USS CABOT---it MAY BE (?) too late!
>Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 08:52:37 EST
>
>In a message dated 12/22/00 2:20:02 PM Central Daylight Time,
>rbarber41@hotmail.com writes:
>
><< None of us wants to see there grand old
> ladys go to waste but there are not enough people nor money
> to stop it from happening >>
>
>Yep, the problem is lack of interest. People will pay money for what they
>are interested in/care about. I remember here while back a baseball card
>sold for well over the amount of money needed to save the Cabot. What
>about
>the various baseballs Mark McGuire hit and the prices they fetched. This
>country has made anything military so un-politically correct that our
>military history is being extinguished or labelled militia. The more
>groups
>like ours can do to foster a positve public image of our military history,
>and garner new younger interested members the more likely we will be to
>save
>things like this.
>My .02,
>David Doyle
>
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