USS Gabriel Giffords

[Gilligan]

Why not? Yes..satire...but wtf is a ship named after a congress critter whose only claim to fame is to have been the victim of random violence?


http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/06/uss-gabrielle-giffords-christened-gun-free/

 

[blacklabman]

I don't think a USS vessel should be named after a living person. That includes Bush and McCain.

 

[b23hqb]

Why not? Yes..satire...but wtf is a ship named after a congress critter whose only claim to fame is to have been the victim of random violence?


http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/06/uss-gabrielle-giffords-christened-gun-free/

Until I read the last paragraph, my comment was to be it would be stolen on it's first cruise.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I don't think a USS vessel should be named after a living person. That includes Bush and McCain.

I give it 10 years before we have a USS Barack Obama.

 

[Blister]

It will be the first U.S. Navy vessel built without a rudder or a keel.

 

[dgates80]

It will be the first U.S. Navy vessel built without a rudder or a keel.

So, if no keel, it would be considered spineless? How appropriate that the USS Barry O would be constructed in such a manner!

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

I give it 10 years before we have a USS Barack Obama.

That long, huh?

 

[stgislander]

The whole issue of naming US naval vessels has become a farce.

 

[b23hqb]

So, if no keel, it would be considered spineless? How appropriate that the USS Barry O would be constructed in such a manner!

And with the Michelle in charge of the galley, it could only sail in a salt-free environment.

 

[MMDad]

Why did you post a story about Gabrielle Giffords in a Gabriel Giffords tread?

 

[somdwatch]

And with the Michelle in charge of the galley, it could only sail in a salt-free environment.

Homeport, Chicago! Great Lakes cruises only.

 

[vraiblonde]

It will be the first U.S. Navy vessel built without a rudder or a keel.

 

[Lurk]

Homeport, Chicago! Great Lakes cruises only.

Only sails in circles, heeling to the port at all times.

 

[b23hqb]

Only sails in circles, heeling to the port at all times.

Well stated geographically, and with the homeport also the hometown. Brilliant! Only in the obama's Amerika!

And always within a short ride to the quality golf courses of Chicagoland.

 

[kom526]

Why did you post a story about Gabrielle Giffords in a Gabriel Giffords tread?

Because #Caitlyn

 

[Larry Gude]

I don't think a USS vessel should be named after a person. .

Improved by reducing.

 

[MMDad]

Improved by reducing.

Really? No USS George Washington? Lincoln? No MOH winners?

 

[Larry Gude]

Really? No USS George Washington? Lincoln? No MOH winners?

Nope.

I read a book about Iwo a LONG time ago and it had a list in the back of honor awards and why they got it. 100's of men were given posthumous trinkets for jumping on grenades, sacrificing their lives for their mates. That moment belongs to the men they saved and a name on a boat, #1, there isn't enough of them and, #2, the idea of ranking that sort of thing, this size boat for this guy, that size for the other, to me, rather trivializes the whole thing. That's just Iwo. What about Okinawa? Tarawa? Actions on board we've never read or heard about? Our duty as citizens is, it seems to me, not about this sort of thing but about see their sacrifice was worth it. I think we did that post WWII. We have not done it since.

The way to honor a solider is to see to it that his life is not wasted.

 

[glhs837]

Nope.

I read a book about Iwo a LONG time ago and it had a list in the back of honor awards and why they got it. 100's of men were given posthumous trinkets for jumping on grenades, sacrificing their lives for their mates. That moment belongs to the men they saved and a name on a boat, #1, there isn't enough of them and, #2, the idea of ranking that sort of thing, this size boat for this guy, that size for the other, to me, rather trivializes the whole thing. That's just Iwo. What about Okinawa? Tarawa? Actions on board we've never read or heard about? Our duty as citizens is, it seems to me, not about this sort of thing but about see their sacrifice was worth it. I think we did that post WWII. We have not done it since.

The way to honor a solider is to see to it that his life is not wasted.

Exactly. You know your life might have to be spent, but that coin should buy something.

 

[Larry Gude]

Really? No USS George Washington? Lincoln? No MOH winners?

Does the title of this thread not make my point?