Posted on Sep 8, 2021
What suggestions do you have for renaming DoD installations honoring Confederate officers?
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Doesn't matter if you agree with this move or not - it's been directed and it's happening. What are your suggestions for renaming the following bases?
- Fort Bragg
- Fort Rucker
- Fort Benning
- Fort Gordon
- Fort Hood
- Fort Polk
- Fort A.P. Hill
- Fort Belvoir
- Fort Lee
- Fort Pickett
- Fort Bragg
- Fort Rucker
- Fort Benning
- Fort Gordon
- Fort Hood
- Fort Polk
- Fort A.P. Hill
- Fort Belvoir
- Fort Lee
- Fort Pickett
Civil War
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I'd be willing to bet that five years ago there were probably only one or two percent of Americans that knew who Braxton Bragg was. Destroying history is one of the most ignorant things we can do. Leave the names alone and quit acting like spoiled children.
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Leave them alone. Changing a name does not change what some are linked to. If you open this door then we will start changing our money (Jackson), schools, streets, processes etc. Yes men and women are linked to horrible things, and if we look in the mirror we are all guilty of association to something. We can not fix historical issues, but learn by them.
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"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
Golda Meir, Israeli prime minister (1898-1978)
Golda Meir, Israeli prime minister (1898-1978)
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CPT Chris McGowan "Racist" is just your dog whistle for anyone who disagrees with you. You ignore anything that doesn't meet your prejudice.
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SFC Jeff Duncan
SGM (Join to see) - lets not forget that she was a bartender “ not that it’s a bad job etc” touts her “tax the rich” and has been in Congress for roughly two years. She now is a millionaire herself and has committed criminal and political malfeasance by accepting gifts and attending very expensive gala’s that someone else paid for her entry and plate. She is the atypical Socialist!!
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PVT Mark Whitcomb
SGM (Join to see) - lets not forget the first recorded slave owner in the US was a BLACK man. Who went to court to get his Slave back and won.
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Just leave the names the same. You can't change the past. Why bring names up from over100 plus years ago. Who cares if these installations are named for Confederate Officers. Someday if your family name is the same as one of these bases, by law they'll make you change it.
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LTC Tom Jones
Hmmm. You're life expectancy appears to be at risk here SGT Daniel Merriman unless something can be done to turn this lunacy around.
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I agree with naming them after Medal of Honor recipients. Buy this move should not have been made. We should teach history not try to erase it. Because when you forget your past your doomed to make the same mistakes.
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CPO James Walker
That is your opinion and you are welcome to it. Slavery was not the only issue that caused the war. The majority of the men who fought for the south were not slave owners. You are right that the Officers and Soldiers who left active military of the US to fight for the south were traitors. No one in my family ever owned slaves and I completely disagree with anyone ever being put into enslavement. I do not agree with discrimination in any form, you treat all people as you wish to be treated. But my point was to teach history as it is so hopefully something like the Civil War will ever happen again!!!!!!!
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Renaming the bases isn't 'erasing history'. It is removing slavery defending traitors from a place of honor and honoring American heroes in their place.
I have not seen anything proposed that the CSA officers will never be mentioned again. I hope that every base that gets renamed makes an exhibit dedicated to explaining the entire history from the point that the person was born, their role in the CSA, why the base was named after them to begin with and the process that we're in right now.
If anything having bases named after traitors makes future mistakes MORE likely to happen. It might send the message that if you are a traitor you'll get a base named after you.
I have not seen anything proposed that the CSA officers will never be mentioned again. I hope that every base that gets renamed makes an exhibit dedicated to explaining the entire history from the point that the person was born, their role in the CSA, why the base was named after them to begin with and the process that we're in right now.
If anything having bases named after traitors makes future mistakes MORE likely to happen. It might send the message that if you are a traitor you'll get a base named after you.
CPO James Walker
CW3 Matt Tait People keep calling them traitors. When we're they convicted to properly name them as traitors? Only about 6 southerners were ever tried and they have all received presidential pardons. I believe President Carter pardoned the last one. And again not all southerners owned slave or fought on that issue alone. Only the rich plantation owners and their politicians and family fought for slavery as a primary reason.
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Leave them alone. All installations that were named after Confederate soldiers are a part of history. If people don’t learn that history, then we are doomed to repeat it. Look at what the way our country is divided, Afro Americans, Latino or Hispanic, and White people are against each other again. Everyone needs to learn history.
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Leave the names of the bases alone. The DOD needs to stop caving to cancel culture. Our enemies (China, N. Korea, Russia, Taliban, ISIS, etc) is where our focus should be. Not renaming bases because it hurts someone's feelings.
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SSG Michael D.
Exactly, I am shocked our once upon a time Pentagon Patriots have become weak idiots!
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SFC Jeff Duncan
They have been awoken, just ask Milley. We have unprecedented potential global conflict and he’s worried about his “ white privilege” if they do not get their heads out of their rectums we won’t have to worry about any of this garbage because those of us who survive will be learning Mandarin!!
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Our history will always be with us, both good and bad. The names of the bases should not be changed.
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Benning should be named for The Godfather of the US Army infantryman, to Ft Washington. Any armor installation deserves a look at Ft Patton.
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