It is truly a shame that the United States Navy cannot find a way to save the USS Forrestal. This ship should be saved as a museum for several reasons. The Forrestal was the first of the "supercarriers," the precursor to Nimitz class carriers that the Navy depends upon today for power projection. The USS Forrestal should also be preserved as a museum in the memory of the 134 who died in the 1967 explosion and fire. We can save multiple submarines, battleships, and aircraft carriers from World War II, but we can't save the first "supercarrier" and memorialize her dead? It seems that our government can find ways to do less than this, but they can't find a way to help a nonprofit organization save such an important ship?
If this disappoints you as much as it disappoints me, I urge you to write the Secretary of the Navy about this and urge the Navy to reconsider:
Secretary of the Navy
1000 Navy Pentagon
Washington, DC 20350-1000
