{"id":67961,"date":"2016-09-15T08:14:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T12:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67961"},"modified":"2016-09-15T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T12:15:16","slug":"mabus-defends-ships-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67961","title":{"rendered":"Mabus defends ships’ names"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Navy Secretary, Ray Mabus, has made it his life’s purpose to piss off as many veterans as he can by passing over the names of real heroes for the Navy’s newest vessels for less likely social justice warriors instead. The Associated Press<\/a> asked him about that;<\/p>\n

“I have named ships after presidents. I have named ships after members of Congress who have been forceful advocates for the Navy and Marine Corps,” Mabus said in a recent interview. “But I think you have to represent all the values that we hold as Americans, that we hold as a country. And so that’s why I’ve named ships the Medgar Evers, Cesar Chavez, John Lewis, the Harvey Milk. Because these are American heroes too, just in a different arena.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Medgar Evers served in the Army, Cesar Chavez said that his time in the Navy was “the worst two years of my life”, John Lewis and Gabby Giffords never spent a day in any service. <\/p>\n

“He has made some, what people would consider exceptions to the rules, because in his view it was the right thing to do to reach out to different communities in the country,” said David Winkler, of the Naval Historical Foundation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because “community out reach” is more important than honoring actual service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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