Haze Grey History

Just a reminder that Trump hates history and American history is being systematically eliminated by the Trump administration. But go on, tell me more about efficiency and all the money we're saving /s.

Remember this time last year when his budget request wanted to offload all NPS sites not specifically named "National Park"? Then proceeded to gut the park staff when he didn't get that? And certain folks, like the MAGAt that runs the Cod Memorial in Cleveland, dismissed all of it as sensationalist. If you've been to any National Park since this monster took office, you've seen the decrepit state of them. Overgrown earthworks. Rotting gun carriages. Pot holes and closed tour routes. Markers covered in grime or illegible from wear. Missing interpretive panels. Reduced offerings. Closed parts of the park. Historic buildings shuttered. Trash overflowing, bathrooms locked, etc. Are we great yet?

Incoming:

USS Bonespur
USS Loser
USS Felon
USS P**o

What a disgrace. A stain on the entire navy.

After a long break from social media, necessitated by the need to protect my own safety, I've reactivated my IG & FB pages. I've got three calendar designs for sale for 2026 over on my etsy page - to find it, just enter etsy in your search bar, followed by /shop/HazeGreyHistory. I will put the link in the comments on FB and in my bio on IG. The calendars I've got available for 2026 are the most recent three designs, updated for 2026. For whatever reason, I'm struggling getting the US Battleships calendar design from 2022 to render correctly. Right now the choices are:
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US Fast Battleships
Dreadnoughts of WWII
The US Fleet
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I do not have a new design for 2026 - my professional industry has been sledgehammered this year and the mental & time cost required to spend two weeks doing a new one doesn't exist. Nevertheless, I didn't want to skip a year, and I am hoping to break even on webhosting and business fees this year. I have been inactive, I know, and my website plans have bogged down. Whatever future form Haze Grey History will take, I have not decided. But I've gotten requests for calendars and my hope is that there's enough interest in the ones I've done prior to buoy this year's sunk costs.
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I'm aware this is a weird sales message - but I'm aiming for transparency and honesty. And, my calendars are great resources, in addition to being pretty! Go grab one for 2026.

More Maryland Statehouse. In the old Caucus Room is the the Maryland silver service set, commissioned for the CRUISER, USS Maryland (ACR-8) [later renamed Frederick and reclassified as CA-8] in 1904, created in 1906, and transferred to BB-46 when the latter was commissioned. The display is two cases of beautiful artisan silverwork. The silver, sans four pieces that are on the boomer USS Maryland (SSBN-738), has been displayed there since 1962. There's also a far newer display that features the engine room chronometer of ACR-8/CA-8, donated to the state in 2019.
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The silver itself is commemorative of each of Maryland's counties. I would've included the labels and signage if Facebook's cross-posting to IG wasn't trash, but since they want me to edit all my aspect ratios, those and the pics of the chrono are trimmed off the post. AI will just steal my post anyways, so I'm keeping effort to a minimum. My photos. Don't take them. Go see the set yourself, it's free to tour and open every day.

One of presumably two ship's bells from USS Maryland (BB-46) forms the centerpiece of a monument to the battleship on the lawn of Maryland 1779 Statehouse in Annapolis. A little walkaround of the display. My photos. I'm sure they'll get stolen and used by some AI garbage clickbait page. Whatever. Hard to care when the country's collapsing around us. Get out and see as much history as you can before it gets the Smithsonian revision treatment.

The Trump Administration's FY2026 Discretionary Budget Request includes a $1.2B cut - that's Billion, with a B - to the National Park Service's budget. Of that $1.2B, a whopping $900M will come from park operations - mainly by getting rid of parks. according to the National Parks Conservation Association, cuts of that magnitude will require NPS to get rid of between 350-370 parks. Our of a total of 433. Despicable. Per the Trump budget, only the 63 parks with "National Park" explicitly in their names would be left untouched.
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So? Why, Haze Grey, are you posting about this? Well, because for ten years I have listened to comments about every ship I've posted, either wishing that ships had been preserved and/or lamenting the level of preservation of our current museums. But now, a vocal 1/3 of the country has outright betrayed history by propping up this abominable, detestable, corrupt administration - period. Shame on all of y'all that supported this. Let's dive in.
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What kinds of National Parks will get the axe? Let's see what's not considered part of the 63 "crown jewels" - Pearl Harbor. Cassin Young. Gettysburg. Yorktown. Antietam. Fort Sumter. Name any battlefield - none of them are on the crown jewel list. Appomattox. SF Maritime Park (Hercules, one of the tugs that lost USS Oklahoma, most notably). Fort Point. Fort Monroe. Wright Brothers National Monument. Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Jamestown. Rosie the Riveter. Ford's Theatre. FDR Memorial. MLK Memorial. Castillo de San Marcos. Andersonville. Chickamauga & Chattanooga. Fort Pulaski. Kennesaw Mountain. The Appalachian Trail. C&O Canal. Fort McHenry. Monocacy. Boston. Vicksburg. Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville/Spotsylvania. Richmond Battlefields (Cold Harbor, Gaines Mill, Fort Harrison/Chaffin's Bluff, Totopotomoy Creek, Drewry's Bluff), Little Bighorn, Manhattan Project, Grant Memorial, Fort Raleigh, Moore's Creek, Guilford Courthouse, Lewis & Clark, Flight 93. Philadelphia's Independence NHP. Valley Forge. Cowpens. Mount Rushmore. Fort Donelson. Shiloh. Arlington House in Arlington Cemetery. Cedar Creek. George Washington Birthplace Monument. Petersburg. Manassas. Harpers Ferry.
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F**K Donald Trump.

Work continues on many front and ships at Battleship Cove. DD850 had more work done on the fantail. While BB 59 work on the Bat Cave, a nickname for the 5inch 38 cal loading trainer room resumes.
Out with the bad steel and then the new steel goes in. It'll take time as long as the weather permits outside work on the weekends. Volunteers provide much more then most people understand.Bravo Zulu Shipmates!

Shameful.

Rest in Peace, President Carter. Jimmy Carter, a submariner whose career included training on a Balao-class submarine in the immediate post-WWII era, serving on the first purpose-built Hunter Killer boat USS K-1 (SSK-1), and work in the early years of the nuclear submarine program, has passed away. To him, a true sailor, we also owe the Departments of Energy and Education. He reached 100 years of age - astounding. This photo shows USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) on trials in 2004, one of the few vessels named for a politician where the namesake actually deserved such an honor.
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Fair Winds, Mr. President.