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CW5 Jack Cardwell
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LTC Stephen F.
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Thank you my friend Lt Col Charlie Brown for posting the perspective from snopes.com which tends to be left of center :-)
"In July 2003, Texas representative Sheila Jackson Lee (a member of the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus, and an ardent supporter of the civil rights leadership) criticized the weather establishment for their selection of names with which to christen hurricanes, stating that “All racial groups should be represented.” Rep. Lee added that she hoped in the future storm lists “would try to be inclusive of African American names” such as “Keisha, Jamal and Deshawn.”
"Lee’s comment was possibly prompted by the 2003 list of hurricane names, which included French and Spanish appellations (derived from languages spoken in areas that border the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Ocean, where such storms occur)."
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SSG Robert Mark Odom
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