Watching a preview of "Carriers At War" on Smithsonian Channel. Aircraft carriers are quite amazing things, as are the personnel that staff them.
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It is, however, jarring that they named an aircraft carrier the George H.W. Bush. Have we run out of dead presidents?
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There’s also USS Carter - not a carrier, but a nuclear submarine. Named after Jimmy Carter, who was a navy officer and in fact served on submarines. (not everybody knows/remember that fact, what with his peacenik image and all!)
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I remember!
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“has a longer memory than an elefant”
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Please do not denigrate the sacrifices of our current President. If carrying a sword around a high school campus in defense of one’s nation is not real military service, I don’t know what is.pic.twitter.com/t7KtmSEbkS
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George W was in the National Guard, dunno if that counts. It's more that no president has served in any war since the Korean War. Even though Vietnam was a major part of the national experience, we've never had a president that served there.
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