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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

Harvey Milk was just the start, Navy to rename other ships named for liberal heroes

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to strip the name of trailblazing LGBT+ activist Harvey Milk from a U.S. Navy vessel will be followed by the renaming of many more ships, according to reports.

Documents obtained by CBS News indicate that other vessels could be renamed as part of Hegseth’s purge of “woke” ideology from the military in addition to the USNS Harvey Milk, including the USNS Thurgood Marshall, the USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the USNS Harriet Tubman, the USNS Dolores Huerta, the USNS Lucy Stone, the USNS Cesar Chavez, and the USNS Medgar Evers.

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