Letter to the editor: Billions spent on Zumwalt would be better spent elsewhere
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Letter to the editor: Billions spent on Zumwalt would be better spent elsewhere
Kudos for the fine article on the Zumwalt destroyer program in the Feb. 2 paper, by Nathan Strout of The Times Record (“It was to be a juggernaut, but that ship has sailed,”).
I was struck by the author’s question buried deep in the second page of the article, where he asks: “What exactly had the Navy gotten for its $23 billion Zumwalt investment?”
I found a sense of ironic poignancy in the associated photo on the front page, showing a man waving as one of these ships passed by en route to its vacuous mission. I wonder if he realized that he was also waving goodbye something much less tangible and much more significant than a multibillion-dollar boondoggle. What also sailed away with that ship was the equivalent of four or five years of educational investment in our young people. We are all left technically, culturally and morally bereft for its existence.
Tom Kircher
Biddeford
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 607-4255
http://www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com (blog)
'Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.'
~ Henry David Thoreau
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 607-4255
http://www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com (blog)
'Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.'
~ Henry David Thoreau
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