Naming Honors
It was announced by United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, on February 10, 2012, that the next U.S. Navy littoral combat ship will be named the USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10). This raised some controversy as traditionally navy ships have been named after people who have served or are intimately connected to the sea services. The naming of the Giffords, as well as ships being named after labour leader César Chávez and Democratic congressman John Murtha, caused the Senate to amend the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act to "require a report on the policies and practices...for naming the vessels of the Navy."
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Famous quotes containing the words naming and/or honors:
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)