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Article: Free to a Good Home: the USS Missouri
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 20, 1996
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The Navy has an 887-foot, 45,000-ton, steel artifact, and it
wants to give it away. Like all good guardians, however, it needs to
find a caring home, and the requirements are steep.
Whoever wins the prize must have plenty of water (at least 38
feet deep), several million dollars for towing, modifications,
security and upkeep, and a fawning public willing to visit at $5 to
$10 a pop.
The USS Missouri (BB-63), however, is hardly a stray dog. The
mighty battleship where Gen. Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese
surrender on Sept. 2, 1945, has fought in three wars, and, perhaps
more than any other vessel afloat today, symbolizes the might of
American seapower.
After its last gig ...
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