Posted on 06/28/2015 6:55:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When pictures of Dylann Roof holding the Confederate Flag were uncovered, the South’s history during the Civil War was brought back to the forefront.
“The Confederacy itself was basically the slave owner’s vision of a good country. A country that rested as their Vice President said on the corner stone of slavery as an institution on a basic racial inequality,” said John Hayes, Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Regents University.
Hayes says there are three parts of history with different meanings that surround the Confederacy. The Confederacy in the 1860s, the commemoration of the Confederacy, and the last occurred during the 50s and 60s.
“There’s another wave of commemoration and use of confederate symbols. That’s when Georgia changed its flag to display more of the Confederate battle insignia. That’s when the flag was raised at the South Carolina state house,” Hayes told News Channel 6.
Only a portion of Americans can relate to figures and symbols of the Civil War era, yet we still have memorials named after these leaders. Re-established as Fort Gordon on March 21, 1956, Camp Gordon was named after Lieutenant John Brown Gordon.
“Let’s keep in mind, these are people who led… you know were officers leading a rebellion against the USA. It’s always seemed very odd to me that we have US bases named for people that, didn’t just live in the South, but were leaders in an armed rebellions against the USA,” said Hayes.
Army Chief of Public Affairs Brigadier General Malcolm B. Frost released a statement on behalf of the Army “Every Army installation is named for a soldier who holds a place in our military history. Accordingly, these historic names represent individuals, not causes or ideologies. It should be noted that the naming occurred in the spirit of reconciliation, not division.”
“Public space does matter and the symbols that are in our public spaces are meaningful,” said Hayes.
The decision to change the name of a base is up to individual military services and not the Defense Department. Pentagon Spokesman Col. Steve Warren said on Wednesday there was currently no talk about renaming any military installations.
Fort Ayres
Fort Hasan
Fort Bergdahl
Endless possibilities.
They will be renamed within the next 10 years.
When I was a little boy, I remember meeting a great great uncle who was being taken care of by my grand parents. He was past a hundred years of age when I met him. He was a teenager when he served under General Lee in the Army of Northern Virginia.
In retrospect that was poor planning certainly, but the south nearly attained their original goals. The North was losing it all, and badly, until US Grant came along.
The confederacy never planned a protracted war and that is in fact why the union won. The south simply was worn down by attrition and blockade. The union lost more troops but had the resources to fill the gaps.
I am offended by the name of the street in NYC, MALCOM X BOULEVARD. The name should be changed.
No marine that I know would tolerate changing Semper Fidelis to Semper Tolerare.
I’m all for naming sewage treatment plants after current civil rights “leaders”.
The people that do the changing won’t be Marines.
I am so glad that my father is not here to see what has become of his Navy. The USN is only second to the Air Force in embracing homosexuality, and not by much.
As much as I held out hope for the USMC, I cannot see it avoiding being taken down that path. I hope they can, but they will be forced to take it.
What liberals have done (and what they are GOING to do) to the once honorable military saddens me to no end.
Khrushchev had his “de-Stalinization” program. Today’s politicians have dreams of “de-salinization” of sea water.
There’s a Miles Davis Place on 77th St. now.
Well, moochelle did say we would have to change our history.
Does this mean we will have to retroactively rename the USS Robert E. Lee and the USS Stonewall Jackson, two of the Navy’s earliest nuclear subs?
Yes, and many of these officers were in the US Military before the war.
They were gentlemen and peers who had heart felt passion to defend their homes and communities.
The guy that wrote this doesn’t seem to know anything.
The internet and lsm is full of ingnorant knee-jerk reaction advocating stupid things related to the confederacy.
In Memphis they want to dig up Nathan Bedford Forrest. Really? Do they want to remove all headstones from confederate graves? Where will this lunacy end?
It is a purge straight out of the stalinist handbook. The can't undo history but they can make it go away. No student in the US school system has seriously studied US history from an objective point of view for 20 years now.
Everything named "Byrd" in West Virginia is named for a KKK recruiter ("Kleagle") ...
We need a graphic of that “Fag Flag” with a big brown smear up the middle ...
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