I agree about San Jacinto site. That is one of the issues. They,
the San Jacinto committee is trying to kick out the Texas so they can
put something on the bank area where it is tied up. It is a shame on
the short sighted logic on their behalf.

Martin

Pete Keillor wrote:
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:14:59 -0600, "LLBrown"
wrote:

My wife and I visited the Missouri in Pearl on our way to Maui a
couple years ago. There wasn't a lot of the ship open, restorations
having just gotten started. I mainly wanted to see the surrender
spot. The conning station or whatever they called it was something to
see, a little room with at least foot thick armor.

I uploaded the photos to this link: http://peteiii.smugmug.com/. Look
for the BB-63 album.

Pete Keillor
If you can see the USS Texas in Houston sometime. It was most likely a
hellhole in WWII. It had twice as many men as it was built for back in WWI
and they had to hang everywhere to sleep. It is the last of the original
dreadnaught class, it seems tiny compaired to the Alabama.

LLB

The Texas was my first and favorite. We used to do almost an annual
field trip when I was in school as we were only an hour south. I took
my sons when they were young as well. For a Texan, San Jacinto is a
special place. I'd guess I've been there about a dozen times.

I've been to the Alabama in Mobile on the way to Disney World. My
godfather served on her. One of these days I'd like to spend a long
weekend in Norfolk to visit the Wisconsin and the museums around
there.

Pete Keillor