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Gryphonadmin
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22406 posts		 Jul-23-08, 11:02 PM (EDT)
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"namesake"
 
   GENOM White Legion Lieutenant John Jay McCandless is named (in-story) for the American revolutionary, statesman, and jurist John Jay (1745-1829), who, among other accomplishments, was the first Chief Justice of the United States, helped found the Federalist Party, served as governor of the State of New York, and was a significant figure - perhaps the significant figure - in the antislavery movement of the newborn United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Out-of-story, he's also named for (and in-story, may well be descended from) Captain Bruce McCandless II (1937- ), a retired naval aviator and astronaut who was the first man to perform an untethered EVA, and his father, the late Rear Admiral Bruce McCandless I (1911-1968), a naval officer who was awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II.

And now you know... the rest of the story.

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BlackAeronaut
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115 posts		 Jul-24-08, 11:32 AM (EDT)
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1. "RE: namesake"
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   I thought that name sounded familiar when I first read that story. ;)

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TheOtherSean
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2. "RE: namesake"
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   >GENOM White Legion Lieutenant John Jay McCandless is named (in-story)
>for the American revolutionary, statesman, and jurist John Jay
>(1745-1829), who, among other accomplishments, was the first Chief
>Justice of the United States, helped found the Federalist Party,
>served as governor of the State of New York, and was a significant
>figure - perhaps the significant figure - in the antislavery
>movement of the newborn United States in the late 18th and early 19th
>centuries.

I remember reading about him years ago. He was burned in effigy by an angry public after he returned with a 1794 treaty with the British, as many Americans felt's he'd given away too much to their former overlords.

>And now you know... the rest of the story.

Thank you, Paul Harvey, er, Gryphon.

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>--G.
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>Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Admin
>Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
>Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


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