{"id":23452,"date":"2011-05-17T08:33:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T12:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23452"},"modified":"2011-05-17T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T19:47:16","slug":"navy-to-name-ship-for-cesar-chavez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23452","title":{"rendered":"Navy to name ship for Cesar Chavez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least he served in the Navy for two years, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2011\/may\/16\/navy-ship-be-named-after-cesar-chavez\/\">they admit that it&#8217;s being done for purely political reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We suggested the name Cesar Chavez for the ship because we&#8217;re in Barrio Logan and want to be good neighbors, and we want to show respect for our workers,&#8221; said James Gill, a NASSCO spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>About 60 percent of NASSCO&#8217;s 3,600 employees are Hispanic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I should be clear, I&#8217;m in no way opposed to Cesar Chavez, nor do I disparage his work, but what&#8217;s the standard for naming ships anymore? He spent two years in the Navy from the age of 17 with an undistinguished career. He described those as the &#8220;two worst years of my life&#8221;. I hope they engrave those sage words on the bow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED: <\/strong>Duncan Hunter seems to agree with me says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/stripes-central\/stripes-central-1.8040\/republican-lawmaker-irked-when-told-ship-will-be-named-after-cesar-chavez-1.143813\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf this decision were about recognizing the Hispanic community\u2019s contribution to our nation, many other names come to mind, including Marine CorpsSgt. Rafael Peralta, who was nominated for the Medal of Honor for action in Iraq,\u201d Hunter said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Navy Cross awardee sounds a little more sensible than a guy who hated his time in the Navy. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jeff Schogol for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least he served in the Navy for two years, but they admit that it&#8217;s &hellip; <a title=\"Navy to name ship for Cesar Chavez\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23452\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy to name ship for Cesar Chavez<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}