Posted on 01/20/2024 11:45:20 AM PST by Mean Daddy
The Navy is about to name a ship in honor of Omaha’s World War II “Hero of the Solomons.”
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced last week that one of the next new Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG 142) will be named for Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Jackson French, who was born in Arkansas in 1919 but was raised by his sister in Omaha after his parents died.
The Navy traditionally names its destroyers after Navy and Marine Corps heroes. Other ships in the Arleigh Burke class have been named for Revolutionary War Capt. John Paul Jones and Civil War Adm. David Farragut, known for his declaration “Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead!” Several carry the names of Medal of Honor recipients.
(Excerpt) Read more at omaha.com ...
But I am shocked that this administration would bestow any honor upon a white man, living or dead.
For a second I thought that read “Obama”. The guy couldn’t even pronounce “corps” correctly.
“The guy couldn’t even pronounce “corps” correctly.”
I have a strong memory of that skunk saying “corpse.” I always thought he did it on purpose to poke a stick in the eye of patriotic true Americans and in the eye of the military. He knew perfectly well how to pronounce “corps.”
Regardless, the guy was a real hero.
The name will probably get changed in order to honor some trans hero who was called nasty names before the globohomos “fixed” the Navy.
True!
By the way, your tagline made me laugh...I love the movie (relating to the historical events) but I thought it said: “Pericarditis Alive or Rasuli Dead!
I still have my pea coat and it still fits. You can see my name stenciled on the inside after all these years.
> Regardless, the guy was a real hero. <
Absolutely. Black, white, whatever. That’s all a distasteful distraction. French wasn’t some admiral with gold braid on his cap, or some famous politician. He was a true, genuine war hero. From Wikipedia:
“After French’s ship, the High-speed transport USS Gregory (APD-3), was sunk by gunfire from Imperial Japanese Navy ships in the Solomon Islands on the morning of September 5, 1942, he swam six to eight hours in shark-infested waters near Guadalcanal while towing a life raft with fifteen survivors aboard out of the range of Japanese gunfire and possible capture, which likely would have meant execution.”
The Wind and the Lion (1975): 1904: US Marines assault Moroccan Fortress
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=wind+and+the+lion+marine&mid=56C999797BE95698EAC856C999797BE95698EAC8&FORM=VIRE&adlt=strict&toWww=1&redig=5FFCDB2945A6431FBCA3EF193991CB85
I thought the real problem was we don’t have nearly enough of these vessels to counter China.
He’s African American.
That “high speed transport” was actually a WW1 4-stack destroyer that was modified to carry troops to be landed during/shortly after an invasion. Here is the info on CPO French’s ship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gregory_(DD-82)
I know that now. I honor him as an American war hero whatever his race.
Absolutely...that movie was my introduction to that historical event!
But I am shocked at how Freepers post to articles they didn’t read.
Renaming ships is bad luck.
For me, it is one of the aspects of Affirmative Action that irritate me the most-that someone who has accomplished something that should be independent of race, has race injected into it because of Affirmative Action, and it diminishes that accomplishment by default, because many won’t know if that person actually did something that set them apart, resulting in the promotion to a new job or naming a ship after them.
If people in general didn’t know the details of this intimately, they might assume this was an action made for ideological reasons rather than on true merit.
In this case, it is true merit that this person was lauded for by naming a war vessel after him, but I find it difficult to criticize people who would suspect that it was an “Affirmative Action” result.
And that is an unavoidable byproduct of the racist aspect of “Affirmative Action”. Many people will attribute things to that, even though it is indisputably not that in this case, and many others as well.
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