The USS Ling submarine, mired in Hackensack
muck, has a strange history — and murky future
Posted By: NYC Ral, 1/22/2023 8:58:35 AM
Hackensack — When the USS Ling made the voyage from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to its current resting place along the bank of the Hackensack River 50 years ago this month, the Sunday Record heralded its arrival with a front-page headline: “Ling docks with flying colors.” The story described the World War II submarine’s seven-hour, 20-mile journey across the New York and Newark bays and up the Hackensack River as jubilant, with “whistles blasting into the chill air and flags flapping in winds that whipped across the bay.”
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The USS Ling submarine, mired in Hackensack
muck, has a strange history — and murky future 8 replies
muck, has a strange history — and murky future 8 replies
Hackensack — When the USS Ling made the voyage from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to its current resting place along the bank of the Hackensack River 50 years ago this month, the Sunday Record heralded its arrival with a front-page headline: “Ling docks with flying colors.” The story described the World War II submarine’s seven-hour, 20-mile journey across the New York and Newark bays and up the Hackensack River as jubilant, with “whistles blasting into the chill air and flags flapping in winds that whipped across the bay.”
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Two fathers and their sons were on the road for 16 hours from Indiana to New Jersey before arriving in Hackensack on Saturday morning to reach their ultimate destination: the USS Ling. Lewis Palmer, his son Robert, and Mark Gatton and his son Nick, were among a small group of submarine enthusiasts who came to check out the condition of the World War II-era submarine docked in the Hackensack River behind the former headquarters for The Record for decades.
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in a ‘rash’ of incidents 22 replies
Statue of Liberty -- are toppling over
in a ‘rash’ of incidents 22 replies
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Them to Intel Committee, Despite McCarthy's Threats 21 replies
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Sad to see what happens to “Honor, Courage, Commitment” theses days. The current mindset has forgotten we repeat what we don't know or remember. By loosing this "memorial" to those who sacrificed all, will reduce their lives and commitment as something very small if anything at all. Life is not a video game or digital universe. People are born, live and die. In between try to leave things better than the found them. Or should!!!