Fate
For the next five years, Walton operated off the west coast training reservists. Ultimately decommissioned on 20 September 1968, Walton was struck from the Navy List on 23 September 1968 and was sunk as a target on 7 August 1969.
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“Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual: Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.”
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