Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcus H.
Interesting. I've always thought that dying in the act of duty is something honorable to the men and women in the battlefield, but I guess that's one way of seeing loss; the other is the fact that it still involves pain and death and it's not something a person wants to feel while trying to protect others.
|
I get what you're saying, but like what Kakurin-san said, I'd say that a ship making it to "retirement" (i.e. going to the scrap yard) after service is an honorable way to go, too. The ship did it's duty.
There are other ways, too.
USS Oriskany, amongst many other vessels, was turned into an artificial reef. It allows the ship to go on serving, in a way, even after its useful life has ended.
__________________
A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future. –General George S. Patton, Jr.
Avatar v. 37.0: Fighter Squadron 31. The VF-31 "Tomcatters."