--- In NavWarGames@yahoogroups.com, "airxx" <airxx@...> wrote:


> So long as historic names remain available, such as Yorktown or
even
> State's names for that matter, I see little reason for adding the
John
> Warners of our times.


But most of those historic names ARE in use. Also, the BURKE class
is probably over 1/3 and maybe higher, a re-user of historic
destroyer names.

One interesting aspect - has anyone noticed how often DEs sunk late
in WWII in valorous circumstances, had their names 'promoted' to full
DDs of late war construction?

On the suggestion of the number of Medal of Honor winners - I took
the original post as suggesting NAVY AND MARINE MOH winners, which
are indeed too few to employ as 100% of the name source for a
reasonable fleet.