Navy Names Ship for Gabrielle Giffords
Feb. 10, 2012
(AP Photo Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The Navy’s newest ship will be the USS Gabrielle Giffords.
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords looked on at the Pentagon as Mabus made the announcement in a public ceremony. Also in attendance at this afternoon’s brief ceremony in the Pentagon Courtyard was Roxana Green, the mother of 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green.
The ship named today for her, which has yet to be built, will be the Navy’s 10th Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), a new kind of ship designed to bring the Navy fighting power into shallow coastal areas. The first two ships in this class were called Freedom and Independence, but the conventional practice since then has been to name the other ships in the class after a city.
“It’s very appropriate that LCS 10 be named for someone who has become synonymous with courage, who has inspired the nation with remarkable resiliency and showed the possibilities of the human spirit,” said Mabus.
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(AP Photo Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Of course, the rightists probably think that a ship should be named for sarah palin(comparison). After all, palin(comparison) said that SHE was the real victim of that shooting.
Go Gaby & Mark!
BTW, where can we get some of those hats?
PEACE!
