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Naval Forces of the USA will call a new ship in honor of Harvey Milk

Автор: 04.08.2016 | USA, history, personalities
Naval forces of the USA will call the support ships in honor of the prominent politician and gay-activist Harvey Milk.

The tanker which only has to be built will get a name USNS Harvey Milk, as it is reported at the web-site of naval institute.

‘When Harvey Milk served in the army, he could not tell about himself. Now our country tells to the military men and all the world that we are proud of this person and support the choice of such people’, the politician from San Francisco Scott Winner commented on the decision of American military men.

Milk became one of the first American politicians who sincerely acknowledged their homosexuality. He was killed in a year after the victory at the election in the city observation council in San Francisco.

In the youth Milk served at the fleet and participated in Korean War. When in 1978 he was shot, Milk had a belt with the buckle of Naval Forces of the USA.

The life of Harvey Milk became a basis of the plot of movie of Gus Van Sant ‘Milk’ (‘Harvey Milk in Russian release) the main role in which Sean Justin Penn (who got Oscar) played

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