It shouldn’t be named after either of them. Naming it Doris Miller is peak DEI bs.
Let's look at his credentials:
1. He's born and name Doris because the midwife at his birth was convinced he would be a girl before being born. Sounds like a Johnny Cash song....
2. Is born in Waco, Texas a state that practices segregation and has Jim Crow laws that discriminate against him. Yet, he goes to fight for freedom and defend the USA. Mind you this is before the US was in the war so he wasn't drafted. He volunteered.
3. He joins the Navy, an organization that is so discriminatory that he can only be a mess cook and can't serve any combat role.
4. Pearl Harbor happens and the guy drags wounded men to safety.
5. In the middle of combat, he mans an antiaircraft 50 cal gun which he was never trained on, and is credited with downing two Japanese planes.
6. When the abandon ship order is given, he was one of the last three men to leave. Still gives aid to wounded and help other sailors.
7. Earns the Navy Cross and is pinned by Admiral Nimitz himself.
8. Get nominated for the Medal of Honor but is blocked by a racist Secretary of the Navy.
9 Becomes the face of recruiting posters and war bonds.
10. Dies in combat when his ship is torpedoed at the age of 24.
Go **** yourself and your "peak DEI bs." Doris Miller story is about the most ******* WWII American war hero story I've heard of.
