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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

New Naval vessel named for Medgar Evers

USNS Lewis and ClarkFormer Gov. Ray Mabus, now Secretary of Navy in the Obama cabinet, came home the other day bearing gifts, a real plum naming a new pioneer type Naval vessel for Mississippi civil rights martyr Medgar Evers.

What makes the USNS Medgar Evers particularly special is that it will mark the first ship in the nation’s fleet to be named for an African-American other than one Navy SEAL (Evers served in the Army.) Poignantly, it was named by a Secretary of Navy from Mississippi and was the first ship Mabus has named since becoming SecNav.

Even more poignantly, as Myrlie Evers, widow of the slain civil rights icon, pointed out at a ceremony at Jackson State University marking the Mabus visit, it fulfills a promise Mabus made to her 20 years ago as Mississippi’s governor that he would find some way to honor her late husband.

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2 comments:

  1. Lou13/10/09 14:08

    What makes the USNS Medgar Evers particularly special is that it will mark the first ship in the nation’s fleet to be named for an African-American other than one Navy SEAL (Evers served in the Army.)

    Really? What about George Washington Carver, he doesn't count?

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  2. Unknown13/10/09 14:48

    I guess you're right

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