From the Honolulu Advertiser coverage of the grounding and sewage release by the U.S. Navy’s 567-foot Port Royal:
The omission was one more bit of embarrassment heaped onto the 3 1/2-day spectacle of a 9,600-ton warship capable of shooting down ballistic missiles in space sitting helplessly aground in 17 to 22 feet of water just off Honolulu International Airport’s reef runway.
We’d like to officially submit “one more bit of embarrassment” as the understatement of the month.
Full article at: http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090211/NEWS08/902110398
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Exempt from that, too. « KAHEA: the call to protect Hawaii nei // March 19, 2009 at 7:25 pm |
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