What suggestions do you have for renaming DoD installations honoring Confederate officers?

SSG George Emanuel - You nailed it Brother.

Thank you

It is not about changing history, it is about doing what is right.

SSG George Emanuel You are completely right. Also who wants this woke shit any way, only those who hate this country and what it stands for.

I always call it the mess hall. In Virginia folks are not allowed to place confederate flags for more that a year. so they replace the flag every year.

1SG Mark Rodgers - Spent three years at Ft Hood and am very proud of that location and the name.

Always has been, and always will be a Chow Hall to me.

Renaming bases has nothing to do with the Civil War, the Confederacy or slavery. It’s entirely about disconnecting the American people from their past.

General Robert E Lee was a great man who fought for the wrong side. Had he been born in PA or MI, he would have undoubtedly fought for the Union. That fact is true for virtually every Confederate soldier. Prior to the federal government becoming the all looming behemoth it is today, states right’s and loyalty to one’s state over their nation were actually things.

After General Ulysses Grant ordered Sherman to conduct his scorched earth march through the South, while he pinned down Lee’s forces, the Confederacy still had the will to fight but didn’t have the means. Knowing the South could no longer win the war, General Lee did the only thing he could and surrendered.

What he did afterwards exemplifies why he was great. Lee made great efforts to keep the peace and restore the union. There was a large contingent of southerners who wanted to keep fighting a guerilla war and without men like Lee discouraging such actions and President Lincoln refusing to enact harsh punishments against the losing side, it’s doubtful we would have ever been whole.

Our founders were GREAT MEN who were flawed, as are all men. The vast majority of Confederates weren’t slave owners and they weren’t fighting for slavery, they were fighting for their families, friends, communities etc, which had a unique identity linked with their states. Slavery was only the main driver for a small fraction of extremely wealthy landowners/slave owners. The vast majority of Confederate soldiers were good men with flaws. Men who felt obligated to fight for the wrong side.

The erasure of our history is entirely about destroying our shared identities. Only a few decades back, virtually every American believed we were the greatest nation ever to exist, had respect for the flag, believed in the ideals we were founded upon- freedom, rights, protections, equality etc. Our founders were almost universally revered for their courage, wisdom, foresight etc.

Today poll after poll shows the opposite. Which is entirely a byproduct of attacking our flag, our founders, our national achievements, reframing us as systemically racist, built upon slave labor, colonizers etc

A nation with no shared identity, no national unity, no allegiance from it’s citizens, no sovereignty as our borders have been erased etc is a nation that can be replaced or usurped by outside powers.

WHY? Why not leave them as they are? To me changing the names to placate a few is like the timeout cards. Pretty sissified!

SSgt Michael Anderson But they were forced back into the United States therefore they were part of your country and your history no matter how much you ignore the fact!

SP6 Greg Jetter - Very good point, SP6 Jetter. And that
could happen, for sure.

That would neatly obliterate women who served.