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:
“We are hedged about, we think, by accident and circumstance; now we creep as in a dream, and now again we run, as if there were a fate in it, and all things thwarted or assisted.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.”
—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)
“So the old flute was doomed and its fate was pathetic,
‘Twas fastened and burned at the stake as heretic,
While the flames roared around it they heard a strange
noise—
‘Twas the old flute still whistling ‘The Protestant Boys’.”
—Unknown. The Old Orange Flute (l. 37–40)