I am not a fan of the Confederacy, but this is just stupid.
Confederate soldiers fought as tenaciously and bravely as any people in history for the cause they believed in. The war was at root a dispute over what America was going to be.
I think the CSA was mostly, though not entirely, on the wrong side of that dispute. I’m glad they lost, for American and the world, but valor even in a mistaken cause can be honored.
BTW, we name warships and fighting helicopters after Indians, individuals and tribes that fought America as hard as they could and lost. Mostly with a great deal less honor than showed by the CSA.
Now we all recognize those Indians are Americans too. Fail to see why we can’t do the same with Confederates.
Sherman: because it’s a proxy war against the modern day southern conservatives who still uphold American values. By undermining the past, they undermine the present.
Fort Hood and Fort Bragg are named for Confederate generals. Maybe the feeling was that on balance they did more to help than to hinder the Union victory.