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Hows about these folks.
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Let's see :
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Former USMC Commandant General P. X. Kelley: (BS snipped)
Former SECNAV John Lehman (BS snipped)
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Do I need to repeat myself here ?
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Former CENTCOM Commanding General Tommy Franks in a letter to USNFSA Executive Director Dr. William Stearman:
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Franks is just being polite with Stearman (spit, puke, gag
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USMC Commandant Michael Hagee, on April 1, 2003:
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He doesn't even use the word *battleship*.
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USMC Deputy Commandant, LTGEN Robert Mangus on 12 March 2005
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He doesn't even use the word *battleship*.
BTW, his name is Magnus, not Mangus.
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Captain Larry Seaquist, U. S. Navy [Ret.], Former Skipper of U. S. S. IOWA, writing in the American Legion Magazine:
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At the risk of
repeating myself, what he said in 2007 was :
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Actually, I'd love to see it back on active duty, but that's a false hope. Its real value will be as a museum, and that's important in a country where most people don't have any connection with the military."
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Senator John McCain wrote in 1997
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Both McCain and Warner supported the legislation that delisted
USS Iowa and
USS Wisconsin back in 2005.
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Former House Armed Services Committee Chairman [now deceased] Cong. Bob Stump [R-AZ]:
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He's dead.