Fate
She was decommissioned and placed in reserve at Mare Island 24 June 1960. On 1 December 1965 she was struck from the Navy List, and, in January 1966 she was sunk as a target.
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Famous quotes containing the word fate:
““... The state’s one function is to give.
The bud must bloom till blowsy blown
Its petals loosen and are strown;
And that’s a fate it can’t evade
Unless ‘twould rather wilt than fade.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The impression made on me was that the French Canadians were even sharing the fate of the Indians, or at least gradually disappearing in what is called the Saxon current.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)