Return To Stateside
On 1 September 1970, Whippoorwill concluded her final tour of duty along the coast of Vietnam. She steamed home — via Sasebo, Subic Bay, and Pearl Harbor — and arrived in Long Beach, California, on 12 November.
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Famous quotes containing the words return to and/or return:
“Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or
the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the
cistern.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit
shall return unto God who gave it.
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. XII, 6–7)
“I got my first clear view of Ktaadn, on this excursion, from a hill about two miles northwest of Bangor, whither I went for this purpose. After this I was ready to return to Massachusetts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)