Well Murtha was a Democrat and the Dems control the Government, what can one expect. The Secretary of the Navy has announced the San Antonio class LPD 26 will be named after Murtha who is most recently famous for his slandering the very marines that would be transported on it. I have always disagreed with naming ships after politicians when the traditional names are not. Equating the name Thomas Gates with the famous battles of the Ticonderoga Class CGs or the Henry Jackson with the states of the Ohio class debases the orignal names but naming the city class LPD "Murtha" is an outrage. |