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Saturday, July 07, 2012

New destroyer to be named for SC Vietnam War hero

Ralph Henry JohnsonOne of the next three destroyers to be commissioned by the U.S. Navy will be named after a South Carolinian most people have probably never heard of.

He wasn’t a governor, a congressman, a senator. He wasn’t a founding father nor a great general.

He was a 19-year-old African-American, a native of Charleston and a true American hero. His name was Ralph Johnson and on March 5, 1968, he was a United States Marine Corps private serving in Vietnam.

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  1. Mud7/7/12 14:56

    Oorah Marine. The tradition continues.

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