Recent Years
Seattle accompanied the John F. Kennedy carrier battle group on deployment to the Persian Gulf in June 2004. On August 12, 2004, Seattle rescued twelve crew of the Indonesian flagged cargo ship Edha II - delivering the survivors to Umm Qasr Port, Iraq. On December 14, 2004, she returned to Norfolk.
Seattle decommissioned on March 15, 2005.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.”
—Primo Levi (1919–1987)