Pete Hegseth orders Navy to strip name of gay rights icon Harvey Milk from ship
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Defense secretary’s memo says stripping the name of the Navy veteran is part of an effort to reestablish ‘warrior culture’

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Defense secretary’s memo says stripping the name of the Navy veteran is part of an effort to reestablish ‘warrior culture’

    • Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      Because he was shot in the face while doing his democratically elected duty for being gay. He has become an icon and a hero and deserves recognition and honoring.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 days ago

      From Wikipedia

      In July 2016, Ray Mabus, then United States Secretary of the Navy, advised Congress that he intended to name the John Lewis-class oilers after prominent civil rights leaders, with this ship to be named in honor of gay rights activist Harvey Milk.[5] It was officially named at a ceremony in San Francisco on 16 August 2016.[6][7] This was not the first US Navy ship named for an openly gay person, as the WWI troopship USS Von Steuben (ID-3017) was commissioned in 1917 and named for Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, an American Revolutionary War hero.[8]