Quick, involuntary re-exam of my last meal.
Posted on 05/16/2011 6:28:25 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The Navy is considering naming a cargo ship that's being built after farmworker activist Cesar Chavez.
James Gill, a spokesman for General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego, said Monday the company suggested the name to honor its mostly Hispanic work force and the mostly Hispanic neighborhood, Barrio Logan, where the boat builder is located.
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Will it work ? >PS
If they want a Hispanic to honor by naming a ship, here are a few good candidates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hispanic_Medal_of_Honor_recipients
Looks like a twenty footer, but actually has a crew of 412.
Why not the Karl Marx?
Cesar Chevez gave the farm workers outhouses and that’s about it. He also lied to them saying he was living as they were when he was actually living high off the hog.
It’s a step up from the “Murtha”, but not by much. What happened to naming ships for people who are on our side?
Quick, involuntary re-exam of my last meal.
My Father In-Law was in the Agriculture Business and knew Cesar Chavez. Let's just say they had a hate / hate relationship.
Or the USS Juan Valdez
Naming any ship, even a garbage scow after that communist bastard would be criminal!
The US Navy wants to name a warship to honour an Hispanic and they are looking at Cesar Chavez?
If they really feel the need, how about the USS Horacio Rivero - named for a 4-star Admiral who served the United States during the Second World War (where he was decorated for his heroism at Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa), and again commanded a ship during the Korean War, serving ashore until well into the Vietnam War, and just for the heck of it, also commanded the US fleet during the Cuban Missile Crisis - not to mention serving as NATO Commander for Allied Forces, Southern Europe.
It’s not hard to find an Hispanic American hero who is worthy of having a ship named for him. This is just one example.
Funny thing is, he grew up in the Ag. business near Yuma, AZ.
Can anyone actually name one accomplishment of Caesar Chavez?
Other than getting a holiday named after him, and a whole slew of schools and streets named after him, was there anything that he actually accomplished in his life?
How about naming it for....
The President of the United States takes pride in presenting the MEDAL OF HONOR posthumously to
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS EUGENE A. OBREGON
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
for service as set forth in the following CITATION:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with Company G, Third Battalion, Fifth Marines, First Marine Division (Reinforced), in action against enemy aggressor forces at Seoul, Korea, on September 26, 1950. While serving as an ammunition carrier of a machine gun squad in a Marine Rifle Company which was temporarily pinned down by hostile fire, Private First Class Obregon observed a fellow Marine fall wounded in the line of fire. Armed only with a pistol, he unhesitatingly dashed from his covered position to the side of the casualty. Firing his pistol with one hand as he ran, he grasped his comrades by the arm with his other hand and, despite the great peril to himself, dragged him to the side of the road. Still under enemy fire, he was bandaging the man’s wounds when hostile troops of approximately platoon strength began advancing toward his position. Quickly seizing the wounded Marine’s carbine, he placed his own body as a shield in front of him and lay there firing accurately and effectively into the hostile group until he himself was fatally wounded by enemy machine-gun fire. By his courageous fighting spirit, fortitude and loyal devotion to duty, Private First Class Obregon enabled his fellow Marines to rescue the wounded man and aided essentially in repelling the attack, thereby sustaining the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.
/S/ HARRY S. TRUMAN
That is a real American.
I’m OK with it if the agreement is that this is in lieu of a ship eventually being named for -0-.
Never mind, there already is a ship named for him. But the point stands, a Medal of Honor winner is a better choice than some community organizer.
"one of the people'
Right.
I lived in mid-coast California when he was most active. We were surrounded by lettuce fields. When he came to the area, My husband (with the Sheriffs Dept) would meet him at the hotel to provide escort to the fields.(He arrived from the airport in a chauffeur driven limo and dressed in $500 suits (this is the early '70's) - go into the hotel and change into well worn work clothes, come out and get into a old "clunker" and drive to the fields.
Phony through and through.
They'll have to call it the U.S.S. Uh ‘O’ or the U.S.S. ‘O’ Sh@t...
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