Fate
Peterson decommissioned on 4 October 2002, and was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 6 November 2002. On 16 February 2004 she was sunk in support of weapons effect tests for the new DD-21 program, later renamed DD(X), followed by a renaming to the DDG 1000 which is the current program of record. The ship's bell will be transferred to Baldwin County, Alabama for display at the war memorial at the Foley satellite courthouse in January 2012.
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Famous quotes containing the word fate:
“The impression made on me was that the French Canadians were even sharing the fate of the Indians, or at least gradually disappearing in what is called the Saxon current.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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“Your fate is to be what you are. As mine is to be what I am—your master.”
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