Remember....
I’m surprised they didn’t name it after Chelsea Clinton or some other lefty dolt.
Heroic actions by sailor Miller.
But life must have been tough for a man named Doris.....
I wonder if the aircraft carrier will be one of the full sized nuclear powered carriers or one of the helicopter carriers?
He has already had a ship named after him, USS Miller (FF-1091) which was active in the fleet from 1973-1991. He would be a good choice for another frigate or a destroyer, but I don't think he should have a carrier named after him. But it's a better choice than a politician.
Not to rain on Mr Miller’s heroics, which speak for itself but carriers are usually named after heroic battles (USS Lexington, USS Yorktown, USS Midway, USS Tarawa) Former warships(USS Enterprise) or presidents.(USS John F. Kennedy, USS Gerald R. Ford, USS Ronald Reagan)
Tradition should be upheld so if this hero have a ship named after him, how about a destroyer?
I will say, at least it wasn’t named after a homo or trans sexual.
When ordinary men did extraordinary things.
Good. Better revolutionary war battles and ship names and heroes like this man than another damned politician.
And Dorry died on a carrier that was torpedoed off Makin island.
Fitting. And I wanna watch heads explode when Trump announces the first carrier I can think of named after a black man
Outrageous! No doubt he killed and/or wounded some Japanese enemy in doing what he did. Is it right to name a ship after him, but prosecute individuals in the ME or today for killing terrorists. And I hope there are no photos of him with dead Japs! Oh lordy!/Sarcasm toward some Pentagon decision makers and paper shufflers!
Very cool.
>> 2nd Class Doris Miller, the first African American to receive the Navy Cross for valor for his actions on Dec. 7, 1941
The first Black American... to Hell with the divisive “African” bullshit.
If we’re to be distinguished, then all by the same classification: Black, White, Yellow... or African, Irish, Asian.
Congrats Doris Miller.
One of my maternal uncles was at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7th, 1941. He was stationed to the U.S.S. Arizona on that fateful day. He had had shore leave on Saturday and had not returned to the ship by early Sunday morning. Some nice little wahine saved his life. This same gentleman stayed in battleships throughout the war, ending up in the 3rd Fleet and assigned to U.S.S. Missouri. He is one of those sailors shown lining the ship’s structures, watching the surrender being signed.
The greatest generation, indeed!
Naming an aircraft carrier for social justice. Sad. An enlisted mess man breaks a rule and gets on a machine gun during an attack. Certainly not up there with Founders, presidents, and such.
You kill an American lieutenant, and someone else will stand up and take charge, sergeant, corporal, or even PFC. Americans are self-motivated.
It reminds me of Pat Buchanan's quote from his presidential campaign: "Don't wait for orders. Saddle up and ride to the sound of the guns!".
This guy was a mess attendant, or in my words a cook.
With little to no combat skills, he took it upon himself to man a machine gun. Now that does take guts. Was he a hero? Most certainly yes.
However, how many other cooks, clerks and non-combatant types took to the task of operating heavy guns against the Japs on that day? With regards to other wars, the same question applies. Should these cooks and clerks get medals, ships named after them and other awards simply because they went outside their MOS? Because they fired along side their grunt buddies, doing the same thing, the cook and clerk get recognition, the grunt just gets shot at the next time?
If you join (or drafted), you are there to fight, no matter what your MOS is.
Michael Bay in his movie “Pearl Harbor” featured Doris Miller’s story. One of the highlights of the movie.
My mother was 26 and had one or two of her girlfriends spending the night, on the other side of Diamond Head from Pearl. They heard the bombs going off but thought nothing of it because they heard bomb training regularly. Then they heard neighbors, talking excitedly, coming over. The radio came on, then she and her friends went to the living room. She was on the next ship out because the prospect of invasion was not remote.
..a man eating lunch one floor below where Oswald was in Dallas was named Bonnie Ray. I had a distant cousin who was all man, was named Joyce. Names are just names...
A lot of people fired back at the Japanese. Someone happened to take a picture of Doris fighting back and now we have our newest hero of the lunatic left.