USS Salt Lake City nuclear sub sailing to junkyard

In addition to a first story about the USS Salt Lake City, there's one more from the Deseret News. It seems the ship with numbers 716 is now in the act of sailing off into the big junk yard in the sky -- er, water. Salt Lake City will no longer have a namesake on the high seas.

Such a secret nuclear sub stalking countries and ships around the world called the USS Salt Lake City, a ship loaded to the gills with weapons of massive destruction, is incongruent with the image of our fair city. The name and the weapon just does not fit. About the only thing suitable would be for a private group to buy it, rename it the Church Ship Salt Lake City (USS will have to come off) and equip it to shoot Bibles, Book of Mormons, missionaries and pamphlets that say "Peace on earth, good will to men" out her tubes. Or, if it has to stay in the hands of the government, have the municipality of Salt Lake City buy it and shoot pamphlets promoting world unity and cooperation through another Winter Olympics here. Now that would make our pioneer fathers smile in their graves.