There is another irony in the Battleship, with all its focus on history, they have to keep a constant eye on the future.
One situation Terry Bragg wants to address is increasing local visits to the ship. Some locals act almost as if they don't know the ship is there. Bragg says they hear all the time from locals that they haven't visited the ship in 20 or 30 years. "It shouldn't just be people from Ohio who are enjoying (it)."
Sixty percent of the ship's visitors come from more than four hours away from Wilmington.
Bragg says one of his goals is "to awaken the Wilmington community to this great resource for service and education, and this wonderful attraction right here in your backyard."
Mentioning a $2 million renovation that was done to the Battleship's visitors' center, Bragg said: "You don't really know the Battleship if you haven't been here in the last five years. We're not the Battleship of your grandparents and your parents.
Looks like to me that the USS North Carolina could not be in anyone else's better care than she is with Capt. Bragg. And, as I say in the picture of the USS North Carolina at the top of the blog, my favorite warship ever built.
A Big Fan. --GreGen
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