NYT/AP: Bushes Celebrate Christening of Carrier U.S.S. George H.W. Bush

Only in America, they name a warship after a loser who did not see fit to serve his Nation, when called into action LOSER LOSER LOSER
I thought you were supposed to be dead before they named something
after you?





Bushes Celebrate Christening of Carrier
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 7, 2006

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) -- In the shadow of the enormous gray bow of the USS George H.W. Bush, the Bush family on Saturday christened the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after the 82-year-old former president.

''I know you join me in saying to our father, President Bush, your ship has come in,'' the current president said during the two-hour ceremony for the last of the Nimitz-class carriers, the CVN 77....

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The current president said that in the 21st century, ''freedom is again under attack and young Americans are volunteering to answer the call.''

Doro Koch, the elder Bush's daughter, handled the ritual smashing of a bottle of sparkling wine against the flattop's bow.

Bush father and son and several relatives joined hundreds of others at the Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard, where the $6 billion, 1,092-foot-long carrier is being built. It is not yet finished and is scheduled to be delivered to the Navy in late 2008....

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