Posted on 05/18/2011 4:24:46 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The next U.S. Navy cargo ship will be named after civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, the Secretary of the Navy officially announced Wednesday afternoon at a Barrio Logan ceremony.
The news was met with pride by members of the Chavez family who were on hand at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard for the announcement, but it was not without controversy as it drew fire from a Southern California congressman.
Navy secretary Ray Mabus stood alongside members of the Chavez family and the current president of the United Farm Workers of America to acknowledge the naming of the USNS Cesar Chavez, which will be in service sometime next year.
"Cesar Chavez inspired young Americans to do what is right and what is necessary to protect our freedoms and our country," Mabus said. "The Cesar Chavez will sail hundreds of thousands of miles, and will bring support and assistance to thousands upon thousands of people. His example will live on in this great ship."
His widow Helen Chavez said her husband knew that there were many Cesar Chavezes involved in the farmworker rights movement, but their names were largely unknown. So with that, the family said they accepted naming of the USNS Cesar Chavez on behalf of all Latinos who helped build America and served their country.
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Pander, pander, pander
Followed up by the ships “New Deal” and “Great Society” and “Republicans are Evil”
You have got to be kidding. What’s next, the USNS Lenin.
USNS Cesar Chavez...another ship that just won’t work.
Does that mean that it’s crew will jump ship as fast as his union members did?
Please let this be satire
Must be a Picket Ship
get it?
“You have got to be kidding. What’s next, the USNS Lenin.”
The way things are going I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. I wish I were joking as I say that.
“Must be a Picket Ship”
Her sister ship would then have to be the USNS Lettuce.
How many illegals can you fit into a navy cargo ship?
I still can’t believe this is happening.
Just another part of the WTF Hussein fake presidency, another slap in the face to America.
Why not name one the USS Sarah Lee in honor of her pecan coffee cakes?
Obummer’s world of chaos. Some men just wanna see the world burn.
Let me guess..., it’s going to be voluntarily manned with foreign nationals who sneak on board at night with their pregnant wives and six children, sleep three families to a bunk area, steal all the funds needed to run the damned thing, and pick the place clean to the point the ship sinks in five to ten years. Then they’ll claim it was always theirs to begin with, and they deserve a new one.
(scratching head, sounds vaguely familiar...)
What a nasty name for a Naval vessel. Come on America.
Haven’t we had enough of this crap?
Next they will be outraged that it is only a cargo ship and demand the next Carrier be named the Chavez II.
Next they will be outraged that it is only a cargo ship and demand the next Carrier be named the Chavez II.
A Navy ship named after an anti-American Marxist? Ronald Reagan is rolling in his grave. What nerve to impose this on our Navy. What next? The USS Hugo Chavez?
USNS Boycott Grapes.
Oh yeah, I agree 100% in your post.
USS roach coach
Pulls up alongside carriers at lunch break
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