Posted on 05/29/2011 5:36:19 PM PDT by Tatze
Named after a Navy vet president; OK by me. Surprised it wasn’t sooner.
I fully support naming the ship after JFK. He was a hero. But, today in the WSJ I read a blistering book review about how Kennedy’s inexperience almost got us into nuclear war.
Must read: When Kennedy Blinked ...
“on coming to the end of Frederick Kempe’s molecule-by-molecule deconstruction of the Kennedy reputation for toughness, vigor, smarts and unshakable cool, are more likely to breathe a sigh of relief that civilization somehow survived the confrontation. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704816604576335594159928256.html
That would be a submaerine shaped like an Oldsmobile.
Sooner? The last USS John F Kennedy was just decommissioned in 2007. I have no problem with his name on a carrier, I just wish they had gone with a more historical name this time around.
Kennedy already had a carrier named after him - the disasterous oil burner Jimmy Carter made the Navy build.
Over on DUmmyworld they are complaining that it took 50 years to have a carrier named after JFK
However, I do not see a need to name another carrier after him. It breaks my heart to think that our country's namesake, USS America (CV-66) was towed out to sea and used for Tomahawk practice. This new ship should be named USS America before she is named USS John F. Kennedy.
JFK wound up in PT boats because he was banging a Danish woman correspondent Hoover believed was a Nazi agent. So JFK was transferred from Naval Intelligence [at the behest of Daddy] to the PT boat school down in the Carolinas. Miss Copenhagen followed, the affair resumed and JFK wound up in the Pacific on [surprise] a PT boat.
His first accomplishment as a skipper [which should have been his last], was to destroy a dock. The incident that made him famous started out with the PT 109 as part of a picket line, with ourders to keep both engines idling and one [or two, I forget which] lookouts. Kennedy only had one engine on, and no lookout, which explains how a slower Japanese destroyer could cut his boat in half.
And yes, his actions after the collision were heroic. But if he’d done his job, they wouldn’t have been necessary, and no injury or loss of life probably wouldn’t have taken place.
Throw my bid in for another USS Independence.
OMG, I almost thought you were being facetious. But sure enough, there are several dolts there showing their ignorance.
It must not be forgotten that POTUSA Kennedy bucked the Fed Reserve monopoly on USA money. He had over 200 million dollars of USA Treasury notes printed to serve as legitimate currency exchange for USA citizens and I think backed by USA gold. Obviously the international bankers who are the real power of the misnamed /deceptive named Federal Reserve were upset by his audacity. I still have thoughts that his action caused his demise.
OK but first there must be another “Big E”.
Excellent. Future CVN-82.
Carter had nothing to do it it. USS JOHN F KENNEDY CV-67 had been in service nearly a decade before Peanut entered the White House Commission Date: 09/07/1968 Decommission Date: 08/01/2007
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