Re: oops: Operation code names causes backlash.
"Karl Swenson" <[email protected]>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo_(exclamation) ask (google) and ye shall receive. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter T. Chattaway Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 7:34 AM To: DADL (off topic) Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] oops: Operation code names causes backlash. > http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/05/use-of > -geronimo-codename-in-bin-laden-operation-stirs-american-indian-backla > sh/1 > . Fort Still Apache Tribal Chairman Jeff Houser wrote to President > Obama asking for an apology for the "slur." Houser says equating > Geronimo or any other Native American figure with a "mass murderer and > cowardly terrorist" is painful and offensive. Eh? When I heard that the raid had gone by the code name "Operation Geronimo", I assumed it something to do with the fact that "Geronimo" is a word that people yell when they make a big jump ... so I assumed it was referring to the Navy SEALs jumping into action, *not* to Osama bin Laden. BTW, does anyone know how Geronimo's name became the word that people yell when jumping in the first place? -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot