Whoa! Don’t bother responding. It just hit me…El Paso.
Boy, that was fast.
Chaim Mattis Keller
The movie was The Final Countdown and was a moderately decent effort in time travel paradox issues. The senator in question was wondering why the aircraft carrier would be named after a rear admiral of little consequence. Remember, Mimitz made his mark in the war to come, not before it.
>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<
—The dragon observes
No, Federal law doesn’r require the honoree to be dead. The Post Office put out some Elvis stamps, didn’t they ?
“Proverbs for Paranoids, 1: You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.”
- T.Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow.
The U.S. Post Office still prohibits living people from appearing on American stamps. In fact, except for a former President, you have to be dead several years (five IIRC) before appearing on a stamp. I would guess that whatever stamps you saw were foreign.