We are all jealous!!!!!

Maybe I'll just crank the heat up to 85.... turn on every light in the house... including the halogen spotlights....

And act like I am in a sunny, warm place!

 

You know..... Life is just going along fine....

And then sh*t happens...

Arggghhhhhh.....

No... wife didn't leave me... no, didn't have a wreck.... no, the PC didn't die.....

 

 

 

Mysterious post is mysterious...

 

 

 

 

USS Baltimore (CA-68), 1943-1972

USS Baltimore, first of a class of fourteen 13,600 ton heavy cruisers, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. She commissioned in mid-April 1943 and spent the next several months working up to prepare for combat service in the Pacific Ocean. Her first operation was the November 1943 Gilberts Campaign, in which she used her guns to bombard Japanese forces during the invasion of Makin Atoll. Baltimore next took part in the seizure of Kwajalein and Eniwetok in February 1944, as well as in aircraft carrier raids on enemy bases in the Carolines and the Marianas. Over the next four months, she participated in more strikes on the Carolines, Palaus, Northern New Guinea and Marcus Island, the invasion of Saipan and the June 1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea. In July and August the cruiser transported President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the West Coast to Hawaii for meetings with Pacific area commanders Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and General Douglas MacArthur, and on a subsequent trip to Alaska.

After an overhaul, Baltimore resumed combat operations late in 1944, and from then to the end of the Pacific War supported raids on Luzon, Formosa, the China coast, Okinawa and the Japanese home islands, plus the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Once Japan had surrendered, on 2 September 1945, she took part in occupation duty and helped transport U.S. service personnel home from the former war zone. She left the Western Pacific in February 1946 and was placed out of commission at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, in July of that year.

Baltimore had been in "mothballs" for about five years when the Korean War and the resulting Cold War emergencies called her back to active service. Recommissioned in late November 1951, she soon joined the Atlantic Fleet. In 1952-1954 she deployed regularly to the Mediterranean Sea and, in June 1953, participated in the Naval Review held at Spithead, England, in honor of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Early in 1955 Baltimore went back to the Pacific for a Far Eastern cruise. She then began deactivation at Bremerton, where she was decommissioned at the end of May 1956. Just under fifteen years later, in February 1971, USS Baltimore was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. She was sold for scrapping in May 1972.

 

Is it time for you guys to go yet?