[Drew68]

Much wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the Left today over:

Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship

They're accusing Hegesth of violating longstanding Navy tradition by renaming a ship, angering King Neptune, and bringing a curse up her crew.

Remember, it's been done before.

[Fai Mao]

Remember, it’s been done before.

Drachinfel to the rescue. (Notice the publication Date)
https://youtu.be/tp6W0DvSHMY?si=DT1oog7xh9-H-vJP

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I’m not a fan of most of this renaming stuff...but why in the hell would be name a ship after a U.S. battlefield defeat in the first place? I’m fine with the statues, etc., but battles that were lost just seems weird.

[FLT-bird]

Change it back and change back every military base in the South that was changed by Biden.

[PIF]

Renaming a ship is very bad luck, akin to turning hatch covers over. Ship will now be jinxed.

[antidemoncrat]

Sounds like he really deserved that honor. Stories like this could do more to unite this country than all the political bullcrap we hear coming out of DC these days.

[Fiji Hill]

If Robert Smalls deserves to have a ship named after him, why not a new ship? It infuriates me that cancel culture persists under Pete Hegseth, a man I admire, and that the war on our country’s Southern heritage continues.

[3RIVRS]

Maybe. But this isn’t a hill to die on. It would have best been left alone.

[Verginius Rufus]

They announced it late yesterday, just in time to put a damper on celebrations honoring Jefferson Davis’ birthday today.

[chrisinoc]

According to news reports, the USS Robert Smalls may be decommissioned next years. It will be 37 years old by that time.

[jeffersondem]

Changing the name of the Navy ship Chancellorsville dishonors the memory of the Confederates that fought there - and also dishonors the memory of the U.S. soldiers who fought and died there.

When you are woke the only thing that matters is destroying American history - and America itself.

[DiogenesLamp]

USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) will be renamed after Robert Smalls, a former slave who was conscripted into Confederate service in 1862. The skilled navigator stole the steamer CSS Planter and escaped from Charleston on May 13, 1862, with his family, rescuing enslaved people and capturing military material. He turned the ship over to the U.S. Navy.

They make it sound Heroic. This guy was given control of the ship by it's owner who trusted him. What he did was backstab the guy who trusted him. Nothing heroic about it.

He did nothing daring to get control of the ship. He simply betrayed a trust.

One would have thought they could have come up with a better example for renaming a ship than this.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

I think the Smalls story would make a fantastic movie.