re: White House petition suggests naming next Navy ship 'USS The Deplorables'

quote:

---

Those sailing on USS The Fighting Sullivans (DDG-68) might disagree.

---

FIFY

and then after 30 years decommission it and make it a museum!

Maybe park it with the USS Ronald Reagan

It's just "The Sullivans"

There are two kinds of people in this country.

Those that got on the bus to go to recruit training or OCS or to a service academy.

And those that did not.

If you didn't get on the bus - shut your fricking mouth about having something named after you.

What does pledging something have to do with getting something named after you?

Shouldn't it be about achievement?

quote:

---

Cause you can't do anything noteworthy without being in the military?

---

This thread is thoroughly offensive.

A ship should be named USS Deplorables instead of USS Amaya?





Texan dies in Iraq

Associated Press

ODESSA, Texas — Kacey Carpenter remembered her son Tuesday as a man with a great wit who had nurtured many dreams, including a career with the Marines.

Cpl. Daniel Amaya, 22, was killed Sunday during his second tour in Iraq.

“This was a great passion of his,” Carpenter said. “He thoroughly, thoroughly loved being a Marine.” As a youngster, she said, “he’d played secret agent games, shooting guns, I guess to prepare himself.”

Amaya was one of two Marines killed by hostile fire in Al Anbar Province and among at least seven military personnel with Texas ties who died in combat in the past week.

Kacey Carpenter learned of Amaya’s death Easter Sunday morning. She and her husband, David, heard the doorbell ring after returning from church.

“As soon as it rang, I knew,” Kacey Carpenter said. “I just fell apart. I said, ‘Please don’t say it.’ My husband just held me and I got myself together and I said, ‘Tell me everything.”’

She learned her son had been shot once in his neck and once in the shoulder.

“I didn’t have a good feeling about this tour in Iraq,” Carpenter said. “I just didn’t have a peaceful feeling.”

Carpenter said she was asleep when Amaya was killed.

“Why didn’t I wake up?” she said. “Why didn’t I know when my baby got hurt?”

Amaya graduated from Odessa High School in 2000, where he was a cheerleader and played in the band. Carpenter recalled how her son joked with her much of his life, the last time during a phone call at 4 a.m. Iraqi time about a week ago.

“He was always the ham of the family. He loved to play jokes on people. I think that’s what he lived for.”

It is like you people who take no risk somehow think you deserve some sort of award.

No -- you don't get a participation trophy. Go to Hell.

quote:

---

WhiskeyPapa

---

Your troll game weak son, subtlety is key

quote:

---

Seems like it'd be a fun ship to be on, though I would change it to the USS Deplorable

---

or "THE USS MOTHERfrickING DEPLORABLES.....DWI bitches"

quote:

---

USS Trump sounds good to me!

---