{"id":28694,"date":"2012-02-10T11:17:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T15:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28694"},"modified":"2012-02-10T15:47:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T19:47:39","slug":"navy-to-mis-name-another-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28694","title":{"rendered":"Navy to (mis) name another ship (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doctor D sent us a DoD press advisory announcing that the Secretary of the Navy is about to name a new Independence variant littoral combat ship (LCS) this afternoon. They don’t specifically say what the new ship will be named, but they include this line in the advisory;<\/p>\n

Former Rep. Ike Skelton, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and Roxanna Green will be attending the event. Green is the mother of Christina-Taylor Green, the nine-year-old girl who was killed while attending the meeting of constituents where Giffords was shot during an assassination attempt in January 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, I’m just guessing, but it looks like they’re planning on naming the ship after Christina-Taylor Green. No disrespect to the little girl or her family is intended, but haven’t we lost enough actual members of the Department of the Navy in the last ten years that we can’t name the ship for them rather a pre-pubescient girl? Weren’t there any real heroes whose claim to fame is a little bit more than being an innocent by-stander?<\/p>\n

Name a bridge, airport or a highway after her, not a fighting warship. I can’t believe I have to type this.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Zero sends a picture of the new ship;<\/p>\n

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The same thoughts as above apply. There haven’t been a number of actual Department of the Navy employees who’ve given their lives, we have to name the ship after someone who was shot in a parking lot and survived?<\/p>\n

No, her party affiliation has nothing to do with my opinion. We said good things about her on the day BEFORE she was shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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