Hancock (CV 19) - Naval Cruise Book

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Fighter Burns on H0m'rLcih's Deck she was formally inactivated and her personnel reduced to five officers and fifty enlisted men who will tend the hundreds of machines that keep 'her compartments dry and rust-free. Today she is one of many proud ships moored along the thousand-mile shore- line of Puget Sound, a memorial to the men who trod her decks in the hope of providing a just and lasting peace. At dusk as the sun dips behind the snow-capped Olympic Mountains to the westward it sets upon a nation which has yet to know a conqueror's tread. The price of that freedom is so great that if the lowering of colors each eve- ning were a tribute to a single fallen hero of World War ll it would take a year to honor the Hannah's own casualties and more than eight centuries would elapse ere homage were paid in full. May we build no earthly monuments to those who lie beneath the far Pacific, or on some foreign shore, save the monument of a lasting peace for posterity -should we falter in -our course may those ghostly ships, rising and falling on the eternal tide, serve as a reminder of our obligation to them.

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