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To: Homer_J_Simpson; CougarGA7; abb

Speaking of Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher (as this excerpt does), I noticed an interesting coincidence. One of the destroyers pictured in the news today is named after the late Rear Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher. There has to be a connection, right?


10 posted on 05/04/2012 7:46:17 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Friday_Fletcher

Fletcher was born on November 23, 1855, in Oskaloosa, Iowa. He was the uncle of World War II Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1875 and spent the next year as a midshipman on USS Tuscarora.


11 posted on 05/04/2012 7:59:41 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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