"Veterans aren’t happy with a recent op-ed by the Washington Post, which charged that the Apache, Comanche, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne and Kiowa military vehicles were a “greater symbolic injustice” than the NFL’s Washington Redskins’ name.

“Even if the NFL and Redskins brass come to their senses and rename the team, a greater symbolic injustice would continue to afflict Indians — an injustice perpetuated not by a football club but by our federal government,” Simon Waxman of the Boston Review wrote for the Post on Thursday.

He added that the helicopter names were “propaganda” that needed to end, because Native American life expectancy statistics indicate the “violence is ongoing, even if the guns are silent.”"

A note of sanity was struck by the website's moderator who stated, "the military chooses for weapons platforms “are anything but derogatory, they convey strength, honor, and courage..."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014...ing-apache-chi/

Mr Waxman might also consider that the ongoing "violence" he alleges is the result of what the government has done to Indians. The reservation system is a creation of people like himself.

Warriors respect and honor warriors. I expect Mr. Waxman has no experience of that. I wonder, if he's old enough, if he got his knickers in a twist when one of the biggest ops in Nam was named "Crazy Horse"?