The U.S. Navy talks about renaming the aircraft carrier USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) and naming him Donald Trump, reported on 21 August Guardian and Forbes for CNN. No decision. However, the stakes are serious: state military memory cannot be a private monument to politics.
Rename reports
The case concerns a CVN-81 aircraft carrier that has been listed as the future USS Doris Miller since 2020. As he stated Guardian, citing CNN's findings, the American Navy is working on changing the unit's name. 3 sources were expected to talk about interior conversations, and 2 of them indicated that honoring Donald Trump was being considered.
Forbes He described the case as a political brawl around a ship that was to bear the name of the black hero of planet War II. The authoritative decision was not announced. The Guardian noted that the Navy refused to comment, and the White home sent questions to the Department of Defense.
This discrimination is important. There's no renaming order yet. However, there is simply a serious signal that a motion is being considered in Washington that mixes 2 things: a real military tradition and a policy of individual prestige. A country that wants to be taken seriously should not make an army advertising board a leader. This besides applies to the leader whose part of the right appreciates the fight against the liberal establishment.
Who Doris Miller was
Doris "Dorie" Miller was a U.S. Navy sailor and served on the USS West Virginia battleship during the nipponese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. According to authoritative US Navy communication of 20 January 2020 the future CVN-81 carrier was named after him during a ceremony in Hawaii.
Miller became a symbol of courage at a time erstwhile the American army was inactive marked by racial segregation. At Pearl Harbor, he helped an injured commander and then operated a device gun, although he was not formally trained for specified a task. He was decorated with Navy Cross. He died in 1943 at sea erstwhile the USS Liscome Bay escort aircraft carrier was torpedoed by the Japanese.
The US Navy stressed in 2020 that CVN-81 was to be the first American air carrier named after an African American and the first named after a sailor serving in the ranks of the ranks. This is not a trifle from the chronicle of political correctness. It's a designation of a soldier's act that has overcome the limitations of his era. A Conservative should realize the importance of that memory better than anyone.
Not all Trump motion is simply a state ration
The right in Europe frequently looks at Trump through the prism of his clash with liberal elites, bureaucracy and ideological revolution. In many cases, this clash was real. However, this does not affect the work to applaud all decision, especially erstwhile military memory is involved. A person's cult is not conservative. Conservativeism defends institutions, the hierarchy of merit and continuity of the state.
If the aircraft carrier were to get the name of the incumbent president at the expense of a sailor decorated for Pearl Harbor, that would be a bad sign. America has a long tradition of calling carriers the names of presidents, but according to Guardian, no US Navy aircraft carrier has yet worn the name of a sitting president. The boundary between state honor and political self-promotion exists for something.
For Poland it is besides a test of a cool relation with Washington. DN has already written that Donald Trump's administration policy can bring tension. An alliance with the United States is crucial to us, but it cannot turn into an emotional dependence on 1 name. Poland's right state requires strong America, not America occupied with its own rituals of individual glory.
Congress is trying to limit freedom
The case did not appear in vain. USNI News reported in June that defence commissions in the U.S. legislature were working to restrict the freedom to change ship names. In the task described by USNI News The secretary of the Navy would present an crucial reason for the change and a study to the home of Representatives and legislature committees. The acting secretary could not change the names on his own.
It's a reasonable direction. The names of ships are not toy of political offices. They carry the memory of battles, commanders, sailors, cities and presidents. erstwhile the state begins juggling them under the current message, it reduces the seriousness of its own symbols. And the army lives by symbols not due to the fact that it likes decorations, but due to the fact that the symbol orders the memory of the victim.
In relations with Washington, Poland should keep the same principle. Gestures towards Polish politicians, like reception of Karol Nawrocki at the White House, are crucial for current diplomacy. However, they will not replace the interest account: Russia's deterrence capacity, US military presence in the region, the arms manufacture and the stableness of strategical decisions.
The memory of a soldier before vanity politics
The dispute over USS Doris Miller is American, but its meaning is universal. A nation that can't tell the difference between merit and self-promotion weakens its own memory. You can honor the president if the past recognizes his merits and if he does so in a calm manner, after a time, with a measure. It should not be at the expense of a soldier whose name has already been entered in the name of the ship being built.
The right hand should talk clearly in specified matters. Military tradition, honor of service and memory of the dead stand higher than ad hoc politics. If reports of the change of name plan are confirmed, it will be an error. And the fact that Donald Trump can effectively annoy liberal salons won't fix it. The army is not from teasing salons. The army is from the defence of the state and carrying the memory of those who have occupied this defence with their lives.
Source: WP News, The Guardian, Forbes, US Navy, USNI News.
Source: WP News
