For My Fellow Texans: Battleship Texas is Afloat Again and Ready for Duty
What a beautiful, inspiring sight this is to behold:
Ok, the old warhorse battleship, which served in both World Wars, won’t be seeing active duty again, nor will she return to her previous home at the San Jacinto Battlefield, where she served as a tourist attraction for decades following her retirement until being moved into dry dock outside Galveston a couple of years ago.
Instead, the ship will be pulled by tugs to a pier along the Galveston Port where she will become a tourist attraction again.
Glorious.
God Bless Texas.
That is all.
I served on the commissioning crew of the USS Texas (CGN-39) which had brief duty between 1977 and sometime during the Clinton administration. All of the Virginia class nuclear cruisers were decommissioned when they went in for their first refueling. The state of Texas threw us a huge party in Galveston shortly after she was commissioned.
Isn’t the USS Texas the sister ship of the USS Arizona?