Fate
Frederick decommissioned on 5 October 2002 and was transferred the following month to the Mexican Navy as the Usumacinta (A-412). She was the last of her class to decommission.
Frederick earned one award of the Meritorious Unit Commendation and three battle stars for Vietnam service.
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Famous quotes containing the word fate:
“Heaven forbids that man should know
What change tomorrow’s fate may bring.”
—Publius Papinius Statius (c. 40–96)
“This generation is very sure to plant corn and beans each new year precisely as the Indians did centuries ago and taught the first settlers to do, as if there were a fate in it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is the fate of heroines to be laughed at.”
—Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 7 (1980)