I've enjoyed the answers to this thread but cannot
resist.  Watching the answers unfold, it reminds me of
the old joke about blind men feeling an elephant and
describing what it is.  

Either:
http://crazystudent.com/grad-students/reading/elephant/

Or:
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/guides/looking/story22.html




--- Rebecca Fitzgerald <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Here’s some more information about this ID Badge.
> The ship on the front of
> the badge is a Liberty Ship. Liberty Ships were a
> class of cargo ships used
> in WWII known for their utilitarian design and fast
> manufacture. There are
> only two Liberty Ships extant, the S.S. Jeremiah
> O’Brien
> (http://www.ssjeremiahobrien.com/) berthed in San
> Francisco, and the S.S.
> John W. Brown (http://www.liberty-ship.com/) berthed
> in Baltimore. 


Indigo Nights
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