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Senior Crew Posts: 186 Location: Chunky, MS | Subject: Help the USS Drum My Sunday School class visited the USS Drum on Saturday, October 18th. The USSVI Mobile Bay Base was kind enough to invite us to eat with them at Battleship Memorial Park. The pulled pork meal was delicious! Tom Bowser and Lesley Waters are still working along with restoration. I'm trying to put up the highlights of their progress on the Drum228.org website. This is just a reminder that the Drum needs help still from anyone willing to give. There are many ways listed on the Drum228.org website, both financially and physically. There are more ways to help that I haven't had the chance to add in yet. I hope to get a more complete listing on there soon. Such ways include: 1) Purchasing a "Preserving Our Heritage" patch from the USSVI Lockwood Internet Base, see Rontini for details 2) Making a monetary donation to the USS Drum through USSVI Mobile Bay Base or USSVI Lockwood Internet Base 3) Donating to the USSVI Charitable Foundation and earmarking your donation for the Drum 4) Purchasing an engraved memorial brick that will be placed at Battleship Memorial Park for $30 with all proceeds (after brick and engraving costs) to go towards the Drum - via USSVI Mobile Bay Base. These are only a few ways to help. Here are some photos of her exterior taken on Saturday: Bow port side:  Bow starboard side:  Stern starboard side:  Stern port side:  Tom and Lesley are working on the stern right now. So much rust and deterioration is difficult to work in. It is going to have to be re-created. Help save the oldest WWII-era museum submarine in the USA, if not for your generation, then for the next.  Visiting the Drum is a real privilege, not something to be taken for granted. I want to be able to take my kids there someday. There is no huge monetary source backing the Drum, there is no organized volunteer organization working with the Drum. Things are SERIOUS. NavSea inspectors were "concerned" about some things they saw. I'm not a submariner, nor am I even Navy, but I do know that if anything else goes wrong, or if anything happens to Tom, the Drum could fall into serious peril. It's not too late to start something. It's not too late to make a difference. I'm just not bright enough to know the best pathway to the goal. I do believe that once the Drum ever gets her exterior restored, cleaned, primed, and painted, that she'll be in good shape for a long, long time given her unique cradle that she rests in. It would seem that sensible, routine maintenance would keep her looking good once things are fixed properly. Tom and Lesley are only two people who work hard and make due with what they have in a Park that doesn't care (apparently) that is open 364 days a year, so restoration has to work around the visitors all the time. | ||
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