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:
“The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation—the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honour, Duty, Patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.”
—David Lloyd George (1863–1945)
“And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)