Monday, September 20, 2010

Lanier, you look good in a tux


Let me make one more push for you to listen to the 12 SEP 10 edition of Midrats.

Now being picked up by other papers, on the
16th WaPo had a nice article about Lanier Phillips along with some pictures with fellow Midrats guest Eddie LaBaron and Sailor Bill Cosby at the U.S. Navy Memorial's Lone Sailor Awards Dinner last week.

There is also a nice video overview. Read the article, listen to Midrats, and watch the wee video. Well worth your time. Perspective.


14 comments:

Guest said...

Mr. Lanier's conclusion about racists is, sadly, the truth - some may just have to die off.  The same could be said about homophobes. When / if DADT is repealed, I expect there to be latent resentment for years afterward.

cdrsalamander said...

I wouldn't drag DADT in to this .... but ....

It is sad that Lanier lives in a time-warp in a fashion due to some of his unreconstructed neighbors at AFRH in DC, but that is life isn't it?  Great that he gets out and meets the younger generation more so he sees where we are now.  The great thing is - you can hear that he is a man at peace.  What a blessing that is.

Byron said...

Three great men. I disagree with Cosby's politics, but I have the utmost respect for his service to the nation.

Anonymous said...

Of course there will be problems.  Military leadership still hasn't figured out how to integrate women and treat them as equals yet, which is unfortunate.

LT B said...

That's just silly.  They KNOW how to treat them as equals.  They don't have the political will to do so.  To treat them as equals is to hold them to the same standards.  That would, in the short term, reduce the number of women in the ranks, scare of the females not cut out for the job and leave females like AR.  As a result, it would look like they were against the females but in fact they would just be about that pesky Honor, Courage Commitment thingy when it came to holding all the Sailors to the same standards. 

Don W said...

We can only  have every the way we want it in an ideal world. Everything else is just an ongoing process 'of who's ox gets gored

Byron said...

Lt. B, it's amazing how many of these "guests" do a drive by to stir things up and make blanket condemnations. You think HuffPo has Phibs link up at the top of their site? "Go here, crap on every article this right wing wacko puts up, especially if it's about the Won and the Democratic Party"

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