Doris Miller...LONG Overdue

[sebastian91]

It's the example-of-one geniuses. Same crowd who use a cold day in February as mocking evidence against climate change.

James Inhofe's Snowball: A Senator's Melting Credibility

Is Sen. James Inhofe really the person we want chairing the Senate's environment committee?

time.com

 

[Unsider]

The day we stop using (race) to acknowledge, reward, criticize or condemn someone... we'll cease to be racist.

Post of the hour/day/year/whatever!

 

[NJHurricane]

It's the example-of-one geniuses. Same crowd who use a cold day in February as mocking evidence against climate change.

When is the last time you’ve seen a linching? You never have you ****en fraud. Living off the boogie man that doesn’t exist.

 

[Dhatguy]

“Good” ole EC back to offseason form. Lol

 

[NicKane]

This thread will get banned in about 30 secs...

But tell me again how racist our Nation is?

Navy to name aircraft carrier for Pearl Harbor hero Doris Miller | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, at Pearl Harbor, the Navy is expected to announce that a $12.5 billion aircraft carrier will be named after Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller, the first African American to receive the Navy Cross for valor for his actions on Dec. 7, 1941, when he manned...

www.staradvertiser.com

For perspective, American Carriers are the most powerful Ships of the Line...

ON THE PLANET. Big deal for a man of big character.

Doris Miller one of our most heroic war fighters of all time. Legend in Navy.

If you don't know his story, you better call somebody.

Nice post brother. Definitely long over do for Doris Miller. As a veteran I’ve heard his story and he is definitely a hero. Well deserved recognition for Mr Miller.

 

[Empirical Cane]

“Good” ole EC back to offseason form. Lol

You gotta give what the public wants nephew.

 

[OptimusCreampie]

Oh man a race thread without Harriet Tubman cane is no race thread at all

 

[Empirical Cane]

It's the example-of-one geniuses. Same crowd who use a cold day in February as mocking evidence against climate change.

You are going to be so bummed when you see the geological record evidence for the past 400 million years.

 

[Empirical Cane]

Oh man a race thread without Harriet Tubman cane is no race thread at all

I was attempting to draw him in.

I failed.

 

[gruntking]

Post of the hour/day/year/whatever!

I really appreciate that... but the year just started.

 

[UMFarArcher]

I don't care one way or the other - lots of soldiers/sailors meet the moment - and do extraordinary things as the situation calls for.

Private Alford McLaughlin by himself manned a forward observation post - and was attacked by a North Korean battalion at night, alternated his two machine guns when one would get too hot to hold, firing from the hip, then switch to his carbine, and throw grenades when the situation called for it.

At sunup, he had 150 bodies around him, and blood trails indicated he'd shot another fifty that go away.

It's great someone gets recognized - but doing what needs doing - when it needs doing - is not all that rare - although the Navy Cross is.

 

[WestEndZone]

Racism is a political term.

 

[Suhrthing]

I thought they were gonna be naming em after white draft dodging presidents w shin splints

USS Clinton?

 

[1mg of Epi]

USS Clinton?

Either works

 

[Unsider]

I really appreciate that... but the year just started.

Your post is timeless.

 

[Unsider]

Racism is a political term.

Agree. And politics divide.

 

[Klamalama]

I’m kind of shocked that, in today’s Navy, they didn’t name it the Kaepernick or the Karl Marx.

 

[JD08]

Perhaps someone should compile a list of all of the warships built and named in the last 75 years and then ask why it took 75 years to appropriately honor "one of our most heroic war fighters of all time" and "Legend in Navy".

The Navy named a frigate after him in 1973.

 

[Dingaan1828]

The Navy named a frigate after him in 1973.

This. I think almost no one read the article past the first couple of sentences.

 

[L A M P]

I was really hoping for a USS Caitlyn Jenner but this is also nice. Racism has been dead but transphobia continues to run ramped in this country. #MeToo