Fate
The destroyer was decommissioned at San Diego on 10 January 1933, many of its officers and crew transferring to mobile target ship Lamberton (AG-21). Its name was struck from the Navy List on 5 June 1935, and it was sold for scrapping on 30 August 1935.
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Famous quotes containing the word fate:
“Is it impossible not to wonder why a movement which professes concern for the fate of all women has dealt so unkindly, contemptuously, so destructively, with so significant a portion of its sisterhood. Can it be that those who would reorder society perceive as the greater threat not the chauvinism of men or the pernicious attitudes of our culture, but rather the impulse to mother within women themselves?”
—Elaine Heffner (20th century)
“So the old flute was doomed and its fate was pathetic,
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“To die for one’s country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)