Attenti, ghax gejjin dawk ta' Graffiti
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April 16, 2009 at 1:41am
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Isn’t this the most amazing picture? Google ‘USS JFK at Malta’ and you’ll see just how popular it is. It was posted on US site digg.com today.
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Better than a Libyan gunboat. Having an American aircraft-carrier inside the harbour is a show of trust towards our country.
There must be several decades’ worth of our budget expenditure on top of that deck. Nice shot. Reminds me of the long gone days when US ships used to berth in Marsaxlokk/B’Bugia area and sailors land at B’Bugia in their huge patrol boats to ‘see the sights’ and hand out freebies.
By freebies do you mean STDs?
It was here a few years ago as well. My wife and I had walked along the whole ship and couldn’t believe how large it was. Is this from a recent visit, or from when they were here a few years ago?
[Daphne – No idea, though I’m sure somebody will remember.]
Realised it’s not from the Valletta side of the waterfront, but on the other side. Remembered that the carrier actually came twice to Malta and only the first time it was accessible to the public. It was quite a sight though.
Naqa antik dak il pic
imma sabih
None of you would be so enthusiastic if one of the planes on that deck dropped a smart bomb on your head.
[Daphne – But we were as enthusiastic as hell when their equivalent in the 1940s helped reduce the number of bombs dropped on our heads by Germans and Italians, and we still mark 15 August with gratitude because that was the day they helped a broken convoy of supply ships reach Grand Harbour and save our grandparents from the choice of starvation or capitulation to Mussolini.]
Maybe you could tell dear Alex the Ingrate that their equivalent on an aircraft carrier died in huge numbers so that his father and mother could eat and eventually beget him. The sinking of the HMS Eagle whilst on Malta Convoy duty is one such case.
The number of British and other Commonwealth servicemen who lost their lives so that we would at least have a chance to be born is staggering, yet we Maltese, no doubt fuelled by horse-shit such as Gensna, believe that we were fighting for the “barrani”. Without a doubt, if Malta were independent during the Second World War it would have been swiftly annexed by Italy, as Albania was. This island was like an unsinkable aircraft carrier in the middle of the Med, with the infrastructure to enable it to wage war successfully.
I sometimes think that people like Alex and the Graffiti revolutionaries need a protracted history lesson. It seems that they have been fed a diet of Marx, Lenin and Mintoff for too long.
And if Alex wants to get more personal, here are the names of those killed when HMS Eagle went down.
http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/great_britain/pages/aircraft_carriers/hms_eagle_94_roll_of_honour.htm
Take it easy. I was simply referring to the USS JFK, from the pic of the aircraft carrier you were all so excited about, which was probably on its way to the Middle East. I wasn’t referring to WW2 or Mintoff or barrani or any of that. Now you may think anything you like about Iraq, Israel, etc. but one thing is certain, EVEN American weapons have blood on their hands, innocent blood. We seem to think they defend the good, and are on our side because we too are good. this reasoning makes me sick.
Well the Valletta Waterfront is still in its first phase! You can see that the road is still in front of the vaults, and the lagoon is still sealed off. Probably it was taken in 1999.
From the link below one can see that this photo was taken on the 26th of June 2004
http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=15526
….so it’s not that old, after all.
http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=15525
This picture is taken on the same day. The Sliema/St.Julian’s area can be clearly seen.
I’m pretty sure they didn’t paint all the shutters and doors before 2003.
Alex, there’s no danger of getting smart bombs dropped on your head unless you go around preaching jihad against the US, or get into a scrap with Albanian terrorists trying to take over your village (woops, I’ve done it now…).
Anyway, that ship’s bigger than Valletta. Says it all, really.
ehh xi tlifna xi tlifna (31/3/79)
Remembering the navy in port…. I was next to a friend in Valletta watching the HMS London leaving port on that awful day with tears in his eyes.
U dan kin Laburist qawwi.