USS Iowa heading to L.A.

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And for you rednecks in the audience thats L.A. as in Los Angeles, CA. NOT Lower Alabama.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/news...e=most_emailed

For more than a decade the USS Iowa sat quietly mothballed in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, luring military history junkies with her giant guns, sleek prow and romantic history who dreamed of making her a floating a museum -- and a big Bay Area tourist attraction.
Those who wanted the WW II battleship known as "The Big Stick" envisioned her anchored in a Northern California city -- San Francisco, Stockton, Vallejo and Alameda among them -- and drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, boosting the local economy. But plan after plan to keep the storied vessel in the region collapsed and eventually her supporters looked elsewhere.
Sunday afternoon, after nearly 11 years in Bay Area waters, the Iowa is scheduled to glide, under tow, under the Golden Gate Bridge and disappear into the Pacific one final time on what is likely her last voyage.
The Iowa will be on the way to the Port of Los Angeles, where she is scheduled to open to the public in July, and leaving in her wake ruined dreams and remaining questions about why a region with both a rich nautical and military heritage and dependency on tourism dollars couldn't keep one of the most historic ships the United States ever launched.