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2025-06-28 -Land of the Free

Hegseth announces Navy oil tanker named after gay rights leader renamed after Medal of Honor recipient

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-06-28 00:54|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [143 views ] Top

#1 When I first heard that this Oiler was going to be named after Milk (2016?), my first thought was that someone was having a joke.

Although the ship is a 'Lubrication Delivery System'.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-06-28 05:53|| 2025-06-28 05:53|| Front Page Top

#2 ...I'm truly sorry that Mr. Milk was murdered; AFAIK he did nothing wrong to his killer other than existing. But he had a fairly well-known fondness for underage boys, and an unfortunate death cannot erase that. The naming never should have happened in the first place.

Now let's do USS John Murtha (LPD-26), who not only lied about US Marines committing war crimes, but cheerfully spread them. And then we can do USS John Stennis (CVN-74), named for one of the most bitter and brutal segregationists who ever walked Capitol Hill.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-06-28 06:20|| 2025-06-28 06:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Not that big a deal because a future democratic administration will probably change the name not because he was Gay but because he was Jewish.

Posted by Woodrow Crusonter8952 2025-06-28 10:47|| 2025-06-28 10:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Not too big on the renaming wars, but the Milk thing was just pandering.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-06-28 11:13|| 2025-06-28 11:13|| Front Page Top

#5 And a rather odd choice of an icon, at least at the time, today he would be a kindergarten teacher somewhere.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-06-28 11:25|| 2025-06-28 11:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Milk having been an ally and enabler of Jim Jones should disqualify him as a role model of any kind.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-06-28 12:51|| 2025-06-28 12:51|| Front Page Top

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