Navy to name aircraft carrier for
Pearl Harbor hero Doris Miller
Honolulu Star-Advertiser,
by
William Cole
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
1/19/2020 5:04:07 AM
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 a machine gun on the USS West Virginia to fire back at attacking Japanese planes.
“I think that Doris Miller is an American hero simply because of what he represents as a young man going beyond the call of what’s expected,” said Doreen Ravenscroft, president of Cultural Arts of Waco (Texas) and team leader
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chumley 1/19/2020 6:34:36 AM (No. 292255)
Good for them. I'm sure it will be a proud and strong ship.
As a side note, he must have been mighty tough to grow up with that name.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
franq 1/19/2020 6:39:23 AM (No. 292259)
Whoops. Almost made a crack about boats always being called "she" anyway. Well, Mr. Miller was a true patriot, unlike what the DNC is trying to create today.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 1/19/2020 6:47:26 AM (No. 292263)
My uncle, Dorriss Wilson , from a tiny SW Arkansas town, was awarded the Silver Star for bravery in action on the USS Franklin. Another, Clark Elliott, from the same small town, was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He marched across Africa, landed at Anzio, and fought in the Alps. My step-dad, Warren Perry, was a Naval aviator in the Pacific.
The quietest, gentlest, most loving men that ever drew in air. Wish all of them had something named after them. What a generation. They're all gone now, and I think of them everyday.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
coyote 1/19/2020 8:13:11 AM (No. 292342)
Was his sister's name Johnny?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
F16 guy 1/19/2020 8:55:32 AM (No. 292392)
I've never been happy naming military hardware for people.
What happened to naming them after battles, or military related names: Midway, Oriskany, Hornet, Enterprise, Lexington, AMERICA, Ranger !
Maybe it's more fitting to go back to the old way.......
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/19/2020 9:36:23 AM (No. 292431)
Remember that it was not a “Hope and Change” Administration that approved naming this new huge aircraft carrier for an African-American hero. This is just another indication that African-American voters have nothing to loose by voting for President Trump, who if the “Hope and Change” have anything to say about it will never have such a ship named for him.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Refried 1/19/2020 9:49:26 AM (No. 292449)
Mega dittos to what poster #5 said!!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/19/2020 10:10:55 AM (No. 292469)
Pardon me but millions of Americans throughout WWII did the exact same thing for the exact same reasons. Most of them received nothing but a grave in France or on some forgotten atoll in the Pacific.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
red1066 1/19/2020 10:44:48 AM (No. 292510)
I would be mad as hell and manned a gun too if my parents named me Doris. Imagine being a black man back in the thirties with the name Doris. The insults and ridicule he must have endured would have been brutal.
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I get the impression that the navy's naming commision has been filled with virtue signallers. Not that I have a problem naming a ship after Mr. Doris, but in the past individual heroic sailors would have been memorialized by naming a "tin can" (destroyer, DDE, or frigate) after them. This stinks worse than naming a carrier after John C. Stennis, the late senator.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 1/19/2020 11:20:07 AM (No. 292562)
A ship named Doris is just ridiculous. Bad idea.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 1/19/2020 11:38:07 AM (No. 292581)
Aircraft carriers used to be named for famous battles. THAT was a good plan.
Then the USS Ben Franklin (CV-13, WW2) was an anomaly that, and the USS Forrestal, in 1955 was the real crack in the dam. Even then, the next carrier built was the USS Saratoga, named for the Battle of Saratoga. T
Unfortunately, Super Sara was the last of the "battle" carriers, they just lost the bubble at that point....the next carriers were Ranger, Independence, Kitty Hawk, Constellation, Enterprise, America.
And the final straw was naming one after a living person, which they have done twice, and should never have done - Bush and Ford, both mediocre-to-terrible Presidents.
Go back to using battles for aircraft carriers, and leave the people's names for destroyers. There is a great history of honoring heroes by naming a destroyer after them. MANY destroyers have had this honor, keep it at the destroyer/frigate level. USS Samuel B. Roberts, USS The Sullivans (named for five brothers lost on USS Juneau, sunk in the Battle of Guadalcanal), and many others.
And NO ships named for politicians, it is embarrassingly panderous.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
FLCracker 1/19/2020 11:50:30 AM (No. 292597)
#4, No, my aunt was named Johnny, her brother was Jimmy and my cousin was Jimmie Ruth.
BTW, the name "Doris" means "gift." Looks like it is a uni-sex name.
So what about MacKenzie (son of Kenzie), Madison (son of Magdalene) and Ariel (lion of God) for girls? Or that boy, Marion Morrison?
The name is unimportant; what he did is.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 1/19/2020 12:02:02 PM (No. 292610)
That guy? Never knew what his name was, but boy am I familiar with his heroic defense of his ship. About time, and shame on Obama, both Bushes, and the rest for not giving him the recognition for his heroism sooner. Shame on all of you for not doing it. Way to go Mr. President. He deserved a higher level medal than just the Navy Cross IMO as well. But unfortunately during that era, it did not matter what Doris did, it only mattered that he was a mess attendant and a black man. This news just makes my week.
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Virtue signaling. Out of proportion, out of control virtue signaling.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/19/2020 12:23:10 PM (No. 292638)
What’s wrong with naming an aircraft carrier for the Navy’s first African-American hero in the Second World War? No doubt the leftist and liberal Democrat won’t like it because they did not do that and because The Trump Administration did so.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/19/2020 12:24:03 PM (No. 292641)
FTA: "Miller’s Navy Cross citation reads, “For distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety during the attack on the fleet in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. While at the side of his captain on the bridge, Miller, despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the face of a serious fire, assisted in moving his captain, who had been mortally wounded, to a place of greater safety, and later manned and operated a machine gun directed at enemy Japanese attacking aircraft until ordered to leave the bridge.” "In high school Miller was a fullback, and on the West Virginia he was the ship’s heavyweight boxing champion. Miller had not been trained to operate the machine gun." I support CVN 81, a Ford class carrier, being named for PO2 Miller and I've served in the Navy as both enlisted and officer.
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