Recent Years
Seattle accompanied the John F. Kennedy carrier battle group on deployment to the Persian Gulf in June 2004. On August 12, 2004, Seattle rescued twelve crew of the Indonesian flagged cargo ship Edha II - delivering the survivors to Umm Qasr Port, Iraq. On December 14, 2004, she returned to Norfolk.
Seattle decommissioned on March 15, 2005.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked.... In other words, I don’t improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
“The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrine for a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)