Fate
Vancouver was decommissioned 27 March 1992 and mothballed in reserve status at Pearl Harbor until she was transferred to the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Benicia, California.
Vancouver earned 11 battle stars for service in the Vietnam War.
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Famous quotes containing the word fate:
“... fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
“Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is to write, and only to write.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)