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:
“It has come to this, that the friends of liberty, the friends of the slave, have shuddered when they have understood that his fate was left to the legal tribunals of the country to be decided. Free men have no faith that justice will be awarded in such a case.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“‘Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)