USS Reuben James was one of the vessels in Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising", was it not??
You are correct. In the novel, a Royal Navy vessel, HMS Battleaxe, asks, "What is a Reuben James?". The reply: "At least we don't name our ships after our mother-in-law."
8 posted on 04/24/2006 4:34:35 PM PDT by buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)