Posted on 07/29/2016 11:11:22 AM PDT by Perseverando
This is what Obama thinks of the military. This is what he thinks of children. This is what he thinks of us.
As J.E. Dyer reports, Obama will be naming a Naval vessel after Harvey Milk...
The U.S. Naval Institute reports that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus will be naming a Military Sealift Command support ship after slain San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, a 1970s crusader for gay issues.
The ship class is the John Lewis class “fleet oiler,” and USNS Harvey Milk will be T-AO-206, the second unit of the class.
In company with Milk and John Lewis, the admired civil rights leader, will be Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, who is credited with jump-starting the Supreme Court in a career of political activism;
Harvey Milk was a major gay activist and the usual suspects will be getting a kick out of this. Except that, aside from everything else, Harvey Milk was also the creepy guy trying to lure kids into his van.
Gerard Dols told of how – as a physically disabled teen – the “very nice” Harvey Milk had encouraged him in 1977 to run away from his Minnesota home and come to San Francisco.
According to Dols, Milk told him, “Don’t tell your parents,”
In his glowing book “The Mayor of Castro Street,” Randy Shilts wrote of Milk’s “relationship” with the McKinley boy: ” … Sixteen-year-old McKinley was looking for some kind of father figure. … At 33, Milk was launching a new life, though he could hardly have imagined the unlikely direction toward which his new lover would pull him.”
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Still clapping, LucyT
Them too, then.
It’s bad luck to rename a ship however, in this instance it is needed.
They are not.
Active Duty ping.
What a ship named for barry's topper already?
let us pray Mr. Trump remembers that when he takes office next January. Thew dept of education must go!
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