A U.S. Navy cargo ship is to be named after Cesar Chavez, the famous advocate for farm worker's rights. The naming of a U.S. naval vessel conveys official recognition of the importance of the life and contributions of the person.
Just a very short diary here to applaud the fact that today a U.S. Navy cargo ship is expected to be named after Cesar Chavez, the famous advocate for farm worker's rights. The naming of a U.S. naval vessel conveys official recognition of the importance of the life and contributions of the person whose name is used. The line of 13 cargo class ships which the USS Cesar Chavez will join once commissioned includes names like Amelia Earhart and Lewis and Clark. The USS Cesar Chavez will be the first vessel of the series named after a Hispanic.
See the link here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/...
It is a little-known fact that Chavez was also a WW2 US Navy veteran, enlisting in 1944 at age 17 and serving two years. Here is more on his biography:
http://chavez.cde.ca.gov/...
I thought this worthy of note since the naming of a U.S. Navy ship is no small matter. The choice of a name has to go through all sorts of approvals. Just as the increasing use of Martin Luther King Jr's. name on streets, airports and such conveys the growing acceptance of that person's historic contributions, so the naming of a U.S. ship after the historic leader of the farmworker's struggle marks a milestone in acceptance of his contributions to building a stronger and more just America.
Si se puede!