Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: JEWELLLW@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Larry W. Jewell) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: BB-1 will be 100 soon. Message-ID: <1991Feb5.034858.1576@cbnews.att.com> Date: 5 Feb 91 03:48:58 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 26 Approved: military@att.att.com From: "Larry W. Jewell" I was doing research for a series of articles I will be doing for the fiftieth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack when I noticed that another historic date was coming up even sooner. 7 May 1991 is the 100th anniversary of the keel-laying of U.S.S INDIANA BB-1. The birth of our modern Navy should be observed, and I propose to press Congress to commemorate the date. If any of you are interested in contributing (no money, just a stamp or two) to this effort, please contact me by E- mail and I will send you a short history of the first Battle- ship. I am doing a two-pronged effort aimed at the federal level and at the State of Indiana, and hope that this truly historic date will not be allowed to slide by unnoticed. ************************************************************************ *If you attack expecting to prevail, do it in full strength, because a * *surplus of victory never caused any conqueror one pang of remorse. * ********************************* XENOPHON ***************************** Larry W. Jewell JEWELLLW@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU