At 3:20 YaYa and her fiancé picked me up to go take some pictures with a stranded boat along the lake. Along the way we stopped and went to see the USS Beloit (LCS 29), a new Freedom class warship that was christened here in Milwaukee on Saturday. We actually had tickets for the christening ceremony, but YaYa had a last minute conflict and we had to skip it.
It's probably been forty years since I've been that close to a surface warship. My Dad took my sisters and I on a tour of one that docked in Milwaukee when I was a kid, and too young to even remember what class of vessel it was that day.
My impression of the Beloit?
It seemed, to me, to be pretty darn big, and resembled an ironclad right out of the Civil War.
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