Re: Ship Naming Convention (was: RE: What, no messages?)

Rob Paul wrote:
> Stalingrad?  Debacle?  There was I thinking it was a famous victory...
;-)

How true.  

Perl Harbour and the sinking of Repulse and Prince of Wales were great 
victorys for the Japanese.  The burning of Washington was a great
victory
for the British.  New Orleans, 1814, was a great victory for the
Americans.
And so on.

One side's debacle is the other side's great victory.  

(My historian side demands I say this.	My Canadian side still winces
when I
hear the words Dieppe, especially since my hometown of Windsor is where
the
Essex/Kent Scottish (one of the reg't involved in the raid) was and
still
is home based.)

J.
-- 
Jerry Han - jhan@idigital.net - http://www.idigital.net/jhan - TBFTGOGGI
"Hear me call across the waves;  If I don't come home tonight,
I will make it home someday..." 
Paul Gross and Dave Keely - "32 Down on the Robert Mackensie"