what percentage of the ship is accessible to visitors,

would you say? So that's a fun question for me because we are, I like, from what I understand, we are one of the more accessible battleships, if not the most accessible.

And I might get a friendly email from one of the other battleships later today letting me know that they feel like they are.

But it's hard to really quantify that, to be honest.

But as far as how much of our ship is available to the public, it's about 20%, which when you come to the park and you walk the ship, you spend time on her you will spend hours walking around the ship getting to see things and when you tell someone only 20 of the ship is visible you can see the surprise on their face because they feel like they've been through a lot of the ship and you really haven't admittedly most of what's down below that you can't see they're big empty magazines where we used to keep ammunition explosives that kind of thing so there's large sections around the turrets that were dedicated to that.

A lot of it is empty voids that used to hold fuel oil or those kinds of things.

So it's not necessarily that you're seeing real exciting things if you go down below to the average visitor.

So with thousands of sailors having served aboard the USS Alabama over the years, how do you select the individual stories that help visitors connect with its history? What artifact or personal story in the collection has made the strongest impression to you?