re: #312 Dark_Falcon

It’s typical and the Navy has named ships after worse men. Murtha served honorably as a Marine and he did help get the latest series of Marine landing ships funded. That earns him a ship in my book.

Yes. From the link:

Georgia Rep. Carl Vinson, and Mississippi Sen. John Stennis, both Democrats, supported racial segregation in the South, opposed civil rights legislation and signed the 1956 “Southern Manifesto.”