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Unfortunately, the USN did. By using the same names, as in the case of US destroyers, they're cheating the honorably deceased US Sailors and US Marines of having a vessel named after them. It also confuses people.
Once at a museum, a father was proudly teaching his young son about the model of the USS Yorktown before them, when a patron politely informed them, "...excuse me sir, but you do know that that's not the Yorktown that fought at the Midway battle, don't you?" Slightly embarrassed, the father replied that he didn't, and was informed that that was the second WWII Yorktown commissioned in the lost one's honor. No one will ever know how many countless people have walked away from that museum display with false knowledge, thanks to the Navy's use of the same names.
Possibly it's either from "spite for the enemy" ("you didn't sink us! We're still here!") or some out-dated tradition...but those brave sailors who are entombed in those sunken warships should be associated with the name of their warship forever...by not having any other warship ever using that name. In professional Baseball once a "Hall of Fame" player has his number retired NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO USE IT AGAIN. At the very least, dead US Sailors should at least have that same privilege.
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