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06-29-2014, 10:31 AM
If you thought they'd stop at "Redskins", think again:
Army’s Apache under assault: PC police call helicopter’s name racist
By Douglas Ernst -The Washington Times Friday, June 27, 2014
Veterans aren’t happy with a recent op-ed by the Washington Post, which charged that the Apache, Comanche, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne and Kiowa military vehicles were a “greater symbolic injustice” than the NFL’s Washington Redskins’ name.
“Even if the NFL and Redskins brass come to their senses and rename the team, a greater symbolic injustice would continue to afflict Indians — an injustice perpetuated not by a football club but by our federal government,” Simon Waxman of the Boston Review wrote for the Post on Thursday.
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Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/27/army-vets-blast-pc-police-for-attacking-apache-chi/#ixzz362vUAR3N
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Army’s Apache under assault: PC police call helicopter’s name racist
By Douglas Ernst -The Washington Times Friday, June 27, 2014
Veterans aren’t happy with a recent op-ed by the Washington Post, which charged that the Apache, Comanche, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne and Kiowa military vehicles were a “greater symbolic injustice” than the NFL’s Washington Redskins’ name.
“Even if the NFL and Redskins brass come to their senses and rename the team, a greater symbolic injustice would continue to afflict Indians — an injustice perpetuated not by a football club but by our federal government,” Simon Waxman of the Boston Review wrote for the Post on Thursday.
http://media.washtimes.com/media/image/2014/06/27/3_apache-1_mugshot_four_by_three_s160x120.jpg?9ceaf62d62f03469f648092d3990d7aeced52f2c
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/27/army-vets-blast-pc-police-for-attacking-apache-chi/#ixzz362vUAR3N
Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter