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Congressman Prefers Fallen Marine as Name on Navy Cargo Vessel
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| May 18, 2011
| Stephan Clark
Posted on 05/18/2011 11:26:19 AM PDT by jazusamo
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Good for Congressman Hunter for speaking out to the Navy and Ray Mabus, Cesar Chavez does not warrant having a Navy ship named for him.
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:26:23 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
To: jazusamo
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:28:17 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
To: jazusamo
At least one person has some pride in America.
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:30:14 AM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(They don't need to do another 911. They have BHO and the Fleebaggers.)
To: jazusamo
Cesar Chavez does not warrant having a Navy ship named for him. Chavez is as deserving as Congressman Murtha. [And, yes, I chose my words purposefully.]
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:30:23 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: Pollster1
Chavez is as deserving as Congressman Murtha.I agree and made that point on a thread yesterday.
Ray Mabus is responsible for making the decision on both, we need a new SECNAV.
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:33:27 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
Hey Duncan, call Allan West. He will have your back on this one.
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:36:01 AM PDT
by
70th Division
(I love my country but fear my government!)
To: Pollster1
Yet another ship I will only refer by pennant number - in polite company.
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:38:46 AM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(All Hail the No Talent Pop Star pResident.)
To: jazusamo
We can name a bonka boat out of Thailand after Chavez...
To: jazusamo
Why not just name it Jimmy Hoffa. Same deal different kind of lettuce.
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:42:47 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: jazusamo
The ship is the last of its class. There are about 12 others. They are named after famous American explorers, Robert Peary, Alan Shepherd, Lewis and Clark, etc. Cesar Chavez does not fit in.
To: jazusamo
Cesar Chavez was a Mexifornian commie.. and arch leftist..
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:48:16 AM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
To: jazusamo
The Navy's weighing a decision to name a cargo ship now under construction after labor activist Cesar Chavez This is ABSURD!
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:49:49 AM PDT
by
grobdriver
(Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
To: forgotten man
Looks from the article that one has already been named after Medgar Evers, the civil rights activist. I had no idea how P.C. this had become.
To: jazusamo
Folks apparently this is a USNS ship rather than a USS. Bob Hope has a USNS ship named after him (an entire class I believe)I don't have a great deal of trouble with this, I'm sure others are more deserving, but I'm sure less deserving have so been honored. Regardless, maybe it keeps the name off a DDG-51 for another.
I'm trouble more so with the Marine Sgt.family refusing a Navy Cross or even it being offered. My understanding is he would be nominated and perhaps awarded a Navy Cross regardless of the family's wishes. They may refuse to accept it, but that's merely points of order IMO. The story doesn't seem to cover it, but what is the family's take, doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
To: jazusamo
Peralta should have got the MOH and it would sure as hell be a better idea to name the ship after him rather than a communist who described his time in the Navy as the two worse years of his life.
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:52:52 AM PDT
by
jwalsh07
To: hosepipe
Cesar Chavez was a Mexifornian commie.. and arch leftist.. Absolutely right, he was a commie union organizer.
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:53:25 AM PDT
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jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
To: thinkthenpost
I'm trouble more so with the Marine Sgt.family refusing a Navy Cross or even it being offered. My understanding is he would be nominated and perhaps awarded a Navy Cross regardless of the family's wishes. Peralta was nominated for the MOH by the MArine Corps. Eyewitness, his fellow marine, said Peralta grabbed grenade and put it under his body to save his fellow marines. Brass said he couldn't have done it due to head wound though that is diputed by neurologists and eyewitness account.
I don't blame them at all. Peralta should have got MOH, the grenade could not have rolled under center mass.
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:56:32 AM PDT
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jwalsh07
To: thinkthenpost
There were many articles posted here regarding Marine Sgt. Peralta and his family. Search keyword Peralta.
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:57:03 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
To: jwalsh07
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:58:49 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
It’s all about votes for Obama.
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posted on
05/18/2011 11:59:43 AM PDT
by
Gator113
("GAME ON." I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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