I now see that I had a love for the Atlanta like that you afford a human being and that ships are after all just floating offices and as warm as a dead fish. I will never forget the Atlanta. She taught me a lesson. I won't ever try to love another ship. I'll take them for what they are worth which is nothing.
(Bettsy Perkins, widow of one of the officers of the Atlanta, sunk at Guadalcanal. As quoted in Neptune's Inferno, by James D. Hornfisher)
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