World War I
After being used as a practice ship for Naval Academy midshipmen, Constellation became a training ship in 1894 for the Naval Training Center in Newport, Rhode Island where she helped train more than 60,000 recruits during World War I.
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“War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.”
—Ian Hay (1876–1952)
“In the world we live in ... everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.”
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