Re: oops: Operation code names causes backlash.

Ah, very good! A movie reference! (I suppose we should be glad they hadn't
seen Nosferatu <http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/N/Nosferatu1922.html>,
lest vampires protest.)

Johne Cook
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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Karl Swenson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
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