Anchors Aweigh! (Part 2)

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The worst thing I can say about Battleship Park is their food is awful in taste and price. Having said that, after the rather not-good MAT lunch (one of those sayings I’ve heard about less-than-palatable Navy chow is that it’ll “Make a t*rd,” or M.A.T. ), I proceeded to part two of the museum complex, the hangar where a number of planes are housed. As I previously mentioned, an A-6 from my brother’s final squadron is on display there (apparently most of the planes there are on loan from yesterday’s stop, the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola), along with various other planes, helicopters, and even an experimental prototype plane. The hangar has a tribute to World War I, including some pretty interesting information about the African-American soldiers who fought in the Great War. Similar to the Naval Aviation Museum, this part of the park has a tribute to the POWs, particularly from Vietnam. The most fascinating item on display is a replica of a “sock Christmas tree” that POWs made for Christmas 1972. Easily the smallest of the tributes to military aviation that I’ve been to, it was still an enjoyable stop between the battleship and the submarine, a time allowed for resting from trudging over those knee-knockers. It’s part of the package, and a good one.