re: The next US Navy Carrier to be named after a Black American hero of Pearl Harbor attack

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So?

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So don't be lazy and dumb with hacky race jokes.

I saw this the other day. This makes me so proud! They should name more after this upstanding sailor.

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I always heard he was an MS, but he was collecting laundry so he may have been an SH

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MS didn't become a rating until 1975, and SH did not become a rating until 1944 - a year after Miller was KIA.

Schools
Dorie Miller Intermediate School, Ennis, Texas[36]
Doris Miller Elementary School, San Antonio, Texas (opened 1947)[37]
Doris Miller Elementary School, San Diego, California (dedicated April 28, 1976)[38]
Dorie Miller Elementary School, Waco, Texas (closed 2012)[39]
Doris Miller Middle School, San Marcos, Texas[40]
Community-related (e.g. streets & parks)
Bledsoe-Miller Community Center, recreation facility in Waco, Texas,[41] jointly named for Jules Bledsoe
Dorie Miller Community Center, recreation facility in San Antonio, Texas[42]
Dorie Miller Drive, Champaign, Illinois[43]
Dorie Miller Homes, a housing community in Gary, Indiana[44]
Dorie Miller Houses, a housing cooperative complex built in 1953 in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York[45]
Dorie Miller Park, Lewisburg, West Virginia[46]
Doris Miller Auditorium, in Rosewood Park in Austin, Texas[47]
Doris Miller Community Center, recreation facility in Newport News, Virginia[48]
Doris Miller Family YMCA, Waco, Texas[49]
Doris Miller Loop, Honolulu, Hawaii,[50] with monument located at north end of street
Doris Miller Memorial Park, a cemetery on the border of Waco and Bellmead, Texas[51]
Dorie Miller Recreation Center, San Antonio, Texas[52]
Military-related
USS Miller (FF-1091), a Knox-class frigate was commissioned on June 30, 1973, in honor of Miller[53] (decommissioned October 15, 1991)
Bachelor Enlisted Quarters at Naval Station Great Lakes was dedicated in Miller's memory on December 7, 1971[54]
Dorie Miller Galley, the main galley for Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti[55]
Doris Miller Dining Hall, located at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois[citation needed]
Doris Miller Dining Hall, located at Naval Air Station Chase Field, Beeville, Texas[56]
Doris Miller Park, a housing community for military personnel in Honolulu[57]
USS Doris Miller (CVN-81), a future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier.[5] (Officially announced January 19, 2020)
Veteran-related
Dorie Miller Chapter 14 – Disabled American Veterans chapter in Washington, D.C.[58]
Dorie Miller Post 546 – American Legion post in Racine, Wisconsin[59]
Dorie Miller Post 915 – American Legion post in Chicago[60]
Dorie E. Miller Post 817 – American Legion post in Beaumont, Texas[61]
Doris Miller Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Waco, Texas;[62][63] includes monument and a road named Doris Miller Circle[64]

100% support this. Enlisted never get honors this high and it’s nice to see for a change. Plus anything that keeps the next carrier being named after Clinton is ok by me!

I would

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better him than Harvey Milk

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The sound of it carries such a negative connotation.

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The next US Navy Carrier to be named after a Black American hero of Pearl Harbor attack

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Fitting tribute.