Originally Posted by Dreadnought

Something of interest.

This past sunday I met a rather interesting gentleman who just happened to be the Russian Naval Attache to Washington D.C.. We spoke for sometime about the Iowas and their performance through out the years in service and he relayed to me how much they were admired far and wide in the Russian Naval districts and how he had dreamed of stepping aboard one since he was a child. He had also mentioned about the banner that was released not long ago for their national holiday bearing the Iowa as the naval representative on the banner in which made its debut here on the WAB. In jest I assumed it was supposed to be a Kirov class on the banner. The gentlemen relayed to me that it was a last minute disbaraging prank from some unhappy inparticular people with an axe to grind. Hope he enjoyed his time aboard.