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Just the same as it is to protect
Gettysburg. Just as it is to protect any

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of the other battlefields. We owe it as a
part of history.

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It should be a sanctuary so that we have something to teach the current generation

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of the sacrifices that were made.

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And we were told that the only way that
we got a winning group anywhere was

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through the Merchant Marine.

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They have some of the worst storms at seas off Cape Hatteras, and that's where we've lost many ships.

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The German torpedo boats were laying off the coast there

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and there was no protection. And their
silhouette, they were like shooting

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pigeons at a shooting gallery.

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The closest calls we had in the convoy
where two ships was torpedoed.

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You couldn't stop. There were guys in the
water and you couldn't stop to pick them up.

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You had to keep going. So you never
know what happened to any of them.

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We lost so many. They need recognition.

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The sanctuary would be a giant
underwater memorial.

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That would be fitting for the men that died and are still down there.

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I mean they should be honored.

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Their grave is in the water.

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It's like any other battlefield that we had during the Civil War.

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It should be protected.

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Preserving these battlefields, I think, gives us the means of educating and teaching what happened

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in order to preserve our country and its values.