Posted on Jun 9, 2020
Army secretary open to renaming military bases named for Confederate generals — New York Post
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Hmm. Ft. Benning renamed to Ft. Audie Murphy? Ft. Bragg renamed to Ft. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.?
Army secretary open to renaming military bases named for Confederate generals — New York Post
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Let's use a big eraser and eliminate everything that offends anybody. Rewrite history (or get rid of it altogether) so we are just one big happy (ignorant) family.
Anyone want to take a guess on the cost of doing this
What about concentrating on things that support the soldier.
Anyone want to take a guess on the cost of doing this
What about concentrating on things that support the soldier.
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I think public needs to understand that the base names were actually meant as an insult to the Confederacy. Pasting quote about how one base was named after a toxic failure and not meant to lionize the CSA
"As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817–1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. This public image established him not only as a scapegoat for the South’s military failures but also as the chief whipping boy of the Confederacy."
https://uncpress.org/book/ [login to see] 752/braxton-bragg/
"As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817–1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. This public image established him not only as a scapegoat for the South’s military failures but also as the chief whipping boy of the Confederacy."
https://uncpress.org/book/ [login to see] 752/braxton-bragg/
Braxton Bragg | Earl J. Hess | University of North Carolina Press
As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817–1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing ba...
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COL John McClellan
Your link is to a book review. Where is the assertion that base naming was intended as an insult, and the scholarly research that substantiates that? My research suggests that these base namings were more a part of a broad re-writing of history built around the "lost cause" movement in the deep south.
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COL John McClellan - I understood it to be about reconciliation, but now I am not sure anymore. There seems to be a lot of conflicting information.
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/06/army-bases-confederate-names/
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/06/army-bases-confederate-names/
Why is the Army Still Honoring Confederate Generals?
The U.S. Army has faced almost no resistance to bases named for prominent white supremacists.
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