The Uss Ticonderoga

The USS Ticonderoga In January of ’45 Was engaged off of Formosa When the kamikazes darkened the skies. Hit on the flight deck and the island, One hundred forty four died. An inferno that day and that hour, Yet the Ticonderoga survived. The sixth of the Essex-class carriers, Launched just the year before, She and her crew served nobly Til the end of that long bloody war. Years later I sailed on the Tico; Together we sailed on the sea. We journeyed throughout the Pacific Til she was decomm’ed in ’73. Most of her sisters are gone now; They live on in just memories Where they continue to sail on, Sailing on far distant seas.