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Navy names USS Gabrielle Giffords
The Hill ^ | 2/10/12 | Daniel Strauss and Jeremy Herb

Posted on 02/10/2012 12:18:59 PM PST by ColdOne

The Secretary of the Navy announced on Friday that a new littoral combat ship will be named after former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).

The announcement comes the same day that President Obama signed the last piece of legislation sponsored by Giffords, a bill aimed at reducing drug trafficking along the American borders with Canada and Mexico.

Giffords, who recently stepped down from office, was the target of a shooting rampage in early January 2011.

“The name this ship bears and the story represented by that name will inspire all those who come in contact with her,” said Navy Secretary Ray Mabus at a naming ceremony at the Pentagon Friday.

Giffords appeared at the ceremony with her husband, former Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) and Roxanna Green, the mother of Christina Taylor-Green, the 9-year-old girl who was killed at the Giffords shooting last year.

Mabus said that Green would be the sponsor of the USS Gabrielle Giffords.

The ship named after Giffords is a littoral combat ship, a smaller ship designed for operations close to the shore. The USS Gabrielle Giffords is the Navy’s 10th LCS ship.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; gabbygiffords; gabriellegiffords; giffords; inappropriate; mexico; navy; obamunism; politics; raymabus; usnavy
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Good grief.....
1 posted on 02/10/2012 12:19:01 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Oh God’s sake....

What crap.


2 posted on 02/10/2012 12:19:57 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SampleMan

They should just rename the USS Cole.


3 posted on 02/10/2012 12:21:11 PM PST by chopperman
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To: ColdOne

I’m blowing chunks.


4 posted on 02/10/2012 12:22:06 PM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: ColdOne
The announcement comes the same day that President Obama signed the last piece of legislation sponsored by Giffords, a bill aimed at reducing drug trafficking along the American borders with Canada and Mexico.

Well, it is a relief that that problem has been solved.

5 posted on 02/10/2012 12:22:06 PM PST by RetroSexual
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To: RetroSexual

I wonder when they will get around to naming a ship the USS Brian Terry?

/sarcasm


7 posted on 02/10/2012 12:24:40 PM PST by VRWCarea51
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To: ColdOne

ABSOLUTELY DESPICABLE! WTF? All part of the bid for Obama to take Arizona in November? This has GOT to be reversed.


8 posted on 02/10/2012 12:24:47 PM PST by montag813
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To: ColdOne

I’m sorry she got shot, happy she’s on the upswing. But what has she done...besides getting shot while serving as a representative?

America = Fantasy Nation


9 posted on 02/10/2012 12:26:08 PM PST by mancini
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To: ColdOne
This has Ray Mabus written all over it. Mabus is a liberal pandering POS.
10 posted on 02/10/2012 12:26:30 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: montag813

I gotta go wipe.


11 posted on 02/10/2012 12:26:43 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: ColdOne

How about the U.S.S. Daniel Pearl?


12 posted on 02/10/2012 12:27:16 PM PST by crosshairs (Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)
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To: ColdOne

Shouldn’t it be the USS Saint Gabrielle?


13 posted on 02/10/2012 12:27:16 PM PST by nascarnation (DEFEAT BARAQ 2012 DEPORT BARAQ 2013)
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To: ColdOne

When this current bunch of lunatics is thrown out of office, I propose we name a ship the USS Mary Jo Kopechne.


14 posted on 02/10/2012 12:27:46 PM PST by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "p" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: ColdOne

The other LCS class ships have names like Freedom and Indepence. This reminds me of ship named for Cesar Chavez when all of the other ships in that class were named for explorers like Robert Peary, Lewis and Clark, Alan Shepherd. Now I would not be surprised if they name an aircraft carrier after Barbara Boxer.


15 posted on 02/10/2012 12:28:13 PM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: Westbrook

I don’t have too much of a problem with it. I would rather ships be named after deceased heroes or great events in our history (battles, signing important documents like the declaration, etc.), but Giffords is better than naming it the Obama or Clinton.

Really, naming buildings, roads, bridges, ships or anything after living people is distasteful. The exception being the USS Reagan (because Regan the Magnificent’s alzheimer’s had progressed so far and had no chance of being cured).

JMHO

FreeAtlanta


16 posted on 02/10/2012 12:29:34 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: mancini

Yeah I’d bet my next Social Security deposit that if Saint Gabrielle had been a Republican, this wouldn’t be happening.


17 posted on 02/10/2012 12:29:41 PM PST by nascarnation (DEFEAT BARAQ 2012 DEPORT BARAQ 2013)
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To: ColdOne

Just wait until they name the USS Obama.


18 posted on 02/10/2012 12:29:44 PM PST by Toespi
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To: ColdOne

How come our soldiers who willingly put themselves in situations that could result in getting shot don’t get this level of hero worship?

I’m sick of it. She was a Congress critter. Some leftist put a bullet in her skull. She’s recovering. They should have named the ship after her doctors, if anything to do with her at all.


19 posted on 02/10/2012 12:29:56 PM PST by bolobaby
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To: ColdOne

Other names for LCS ships:

Freedom
Independence
Fort Worth
Coronado
Milwaukee
Jackson
Detroit
Montgomery
Little Rock


20 posted on 02/10/2012 12:31:14 PM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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