Posted on 02/08/2021 3:07:17 PM PST by PROCON
In a report by Task Force One Navy released last week, the Navy is recommending that the service go farther than an existing mandate to rename warships and facilities named for Confederate leaders, and should also “identify assets named after racist, derogatory or culturally insensitive persons, events or language” and rename them.
Task Force One Navy, or TF1N, was formed last summer to address racism, sexism, and other forms of bias within the service. In its final report published Wednesday, the task force said, “Certain Navy ship names have been highlighted by Congress and in the media for connections to confederate or white supremacist ideologies.”
The TF1N final report listed, among its recommendations, that the Navy begin a review of process “to Identify and Rename Navy Assets in Need of Modernization Consistent with Navy Core Values.” The report said the review should “identify assets honoring those associated with the Confederacy and identify assets named after racist, derogatory or culturally insensitive persons, events or language.”
The report comes in addition to a provision in the 2021 defense budget, known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), requiring the Secretary of Defense to establish a “commission relating to assigning, modifying, or removing of names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia to assets of the Department of Defense that commemorate the Confederate States of America or any person who served voluntarily with the Confederate States of America.”
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“No, should be named Ulysses S. Grant or William T. Sherman, they won by the complete and utter destruction of their enemies. That is the quality you need in ships. Gentlemanly but surrendered is not a value I would support.”
You and I have have different values and for obvious reasons.
If it were my responsibility, I would not hesitate to recommend naming a fighting ship, or installation, in honor of Jonathan Wainwright, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
And yes, he was a POW.
Would your “values” allow the naming a ship after William Quantrill
I have no problems naming a ship after Wainwrigth. He served honorably in U.S. Army and fought “for” the United States.
No; and I don't say that because the controversial school teacher was born and raised up North. Everyone knows I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.
It is just that Mr. Quantrill went too far in some matters.
This is not a trick question, did the authorities in the Confederate Government or the Confederate Army recognize Quantrill as an officer of the service.
According to Wikipedia, yes.
Thank you.
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