From the July 23, 2015, Wilmington (NC) Star-News Editorial "Keep aquarium, battleship funded" by the Editorial Board.
"Another local attraction doing well is the Battleship North Carolina. The memorial is having a banner season, reporting 17,500 paid visitors during the patriotically inclined first 13 days of July.
"The battleship, which gets no regular funding from the state, has its hands full with a fundraising campaign to repair a hull that is leaking in places and is paper-thin in others.
"So a bond issue pushed by Gov. Pat McCrory that would pay for a new $11.5 million visitors center is a welcome development.
"We hope that lawmakers will allow the bond issue to come before the voters."
A Tax Increase I Could Support. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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