Fate
Schofield was decommissioned on 8 September 1988 and stricken from the Navy register on 25 January 1992. The ship was sunk as a target on 2 November 1999, SW of Point Conception, NW of San Miguel Island at 34 16 N -- 120 48 W.
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Famous quotes containing the word fate:
“This generation is very sure to plant corn and beans each new year precisely as the Indians did centuries ago and taught the first settlers to do, as if there were a fate in it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Then die that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee;”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)
“Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)