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<\/p>\nWhen I went to eat my cereal this morning, this sight greeted me out my kitchen window:<\/p>\n
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I asked myself, “What is<\/I> the official motto<\/A> of the U.S. Navy?” Because I can’t believe that alongside the Marines’ “Semper Fidelis” and the Army’s “This We’ll Defend” (ok, had to look that one up), the Navy would have a motto that not only bastardizes one of the most cherished phrases from Declaration of Independence<\/A>, but seems to be talking about unilateral, pre-emptive military action based on zealotry and misinformation. Or at least that’s the latest incarnation.<\/p>\n When I first looked into the origin of the slogan, I came across this article<\/a> poking fun at it. But it turns out, depressingly, to be the result of something<\/A> an actual Navy admiral said, and is apparently part of a new Navy ad campaign<\/A>. Now why is it on a cement mixer outside my apartment? Good question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I went to eat my cereal this morning, this sight greeted me out my kitchen window: I asked myself, “What is the official motto of the U.S. Navy?” Because I can’t believe that alongside the Marines’ “Semper Fidelis” and the Army’s “This We’ll Defend” (ok, had to look that one up), the Navy would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}