I don't see how Enterprise is a disgrace. CV-6 stood alone, on fire, flinging planes at IJN while our Navy rebult. When she was scrapped, her Captain's cabin portholes made it to her kid, CVN-65
Enterprise, CVN-65 -- did 50 hard years labor, was an only child, and gave rise to a whole new class -- Nimitz.
CVN-65's being scrapped, and while that is sad, her captain's cabin portholes have already been cut out, and are bound for *her* kid, CVN-80, USS Enterprise, who if I'm not mistaken, just had her steel-cutting ceremony in 2018, for all I know her keel may already been laid.
We will always have an Enterprise. Whether captured sloop-o'-war, or frigate of our own build, or patrol boat, or flat-top, or starship... we will always have an Enterprise.
And there's no shame in that. Bearing the name is a huge task.
(says the man that joined the USAF instead of the Navy, because he was sore they were taking the battleships away. Yeah I like big guns, so sue me ;o)
And i agree. Our flat-tops, other than Enterprise, should bear Revolutionary War battlefield names. I think we're overdue for another USS Saratoga. I'd love to see a new Lexington.