Fate
Luce was decommissioned on April 1, 1991 at Naval Base Mayport, FL., and stricken from the Navy list on November 20, 1992. On December 16, 1994, Luce was finally sold for scrapping and on June 17, 2005, the scrapping was complete. There was a retirement ceremony for 19 members of the decommissioning crew at the "O" Club right after the ceremony.
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Famous quotes containing the word fate:
“In separation, deadly as poison,
in union, brimming with nectar.
What, did fate make my love
out of both equally?”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)
“It seems our fate to be incorrect ... and in our incorrectness stand.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)