Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus was in Portland last Friday to announce the resurrection of the USS Portland and USS Oregon names for two new warships. I am offended that this is being done in my name and in the name of all other Oregonians who have for decades consistently professed values of non-violence and peace
— including Linus Pauling, Oregon’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, and his wife, Ava Helen Pauling; senators Wayne Morse and Mark Hatfield; Congresswoman Elizabeth Furse and poet laureate William Stafford. It is unconscionable that names of my hometown and state will once again be placed on ships used for violence toward others.
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Published in The Oregonian at http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/10/uss_oregonuss_portland_not_in.html
