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:
“But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls,—the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot- box once a year, but on what kind of a man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.”
—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)