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House bill wants DoD to stop using Confederate symbols and names
War is Boring ^ | July 15, 2019 | Rose L. Thayer

Posted on 07/15/2019 11:58:35 AM PDT by C19fan

The Defense Department might be prohibited from naming assets after Confederate symbols should an amendment added to the House defense budget make its way into the final version of the law.

The amendment, added Thursday to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020, was submitted by Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y. The annual legislation cleared the House on Friday by a vote of 220-197.

The Army and Navy are now the only branches of the military with any assets named after symbols of the Confederacy, according to a September 2017 Congressional Research Service report on Confederate symbols on federal land.

(Excerpt) Read more at warisboring.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: confederacy; gregorymeeks; gregorywmeeks; libtards; newyork; newyorkcity
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To: C19fan

The smartest thing national politicians ever did was to welcome the confederates back with honor, leaving their symbols and traditions intact.

The stupidest thing they have ever done was to take it back.


21 posted on 07/15/2019 12:20:42 PM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: C19fan

22 posted on 07/15/2019 12:21:10 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: C19fan

23 posted on 07/15/2019 12:22:07 PM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: C19fan

My recording of Dixie is played by the United States Military Academy marching band.


24 posted on 07/15/2019 12:22:41 PM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: Vermont Lt

Gen. Bragg was “controversial” to say the least. To his rank and file he was a strict disciplinarian and his officers back stabbed him often. At least the cannons were all shiny.


25 posted on 07/15/2019 12:24:19 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: C19fan

Taps for Trooper John Smith, a gallant soldier and a Christian gentleman.

26 posted on 07/15/2019 12:24:50 PM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: budj

Let’s send Speaker pukosi and Sen schoomur down to Alabama to dedicate a new Military Post: Fort William Tecumseh Sherman.


Doing it in Georgia would be more effective...


27 posted on 07/15/2019 12:29:15 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Freedom4US
Accede to one demand, why, they got ten more ready to go.
I bet one of them would be, with the blessings of the declitorized Fakestinian Tlaib and her brother f***ing girlfriend Omar, an end to any grants or other funding to the Holocaust museums, then force them to pay some jizyah. Then ultimately have them shut down and their artifacts destroyed because they offend the tender sensibilities of their peace loving Moslem terrorist jihadi bretheren.
28 posted on 07/15/2019 12:29:45 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: C19fan

Dems trying to erase their racist past.


29 posted on 07/15/2019 12:31:30 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution - Judge Jeanie Pirro)
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To: Jim Noble

“The smartest thing national politicians ever did was to welcome the confederates back with honor, leaving their symbols and traditions intact.”

+1. exactly.


30 posted on 07/15/2019 12:34:08 PM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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To: BroJoeK

And the very reason we shouldn’t allow desecration of Confederate memorials now. BTW, I was born in IL and practiced in IL, MI, and WI before moving to TN.


31 posted on 07/15/2019 12:57:35 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: central_va

To my knowledge, Bragg is the only senior officer of the Confederate army that does not have a statue of him somewhere in the United States.


32 posted on 07/15/2019 12:58:00 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: C19fan

It’s various Forts, Camps and posts in the south that are named after confederate generals etc. I don’t think it’s been in practice much of late.


33 posted on 07/15/2019 12:59:24 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: reg45

No.


34 posted on 07/15/2019 12:59:33 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: Jim Robinson
watza democrat ?

extinct, ain't it ?

35 posted on 07/15/2019 12:59:37 PM PDT by knarf (What third world country was she hired from ?)
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To: Ouderkirk

We haven’t really had need of new forts/camps/posts since the WWII/early Cold War era. Long before SJWs.

Make no mistake about it, Washington, Jefferson, and the like are next, if we let the Orwellian Leftist Taliban have their way.


36 posted on 07/15/2019 1:04:51 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Maceman

Don’t forget ANTIFA on your list.


37 posted on 07/15/2019 1:06:19 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: C19fan

It’s not about the names. It’s about their military prowess.

Should our current leaders be prevented from studying the brilliant tactics of great generals?

Patton studied Rommel. Or should we on study “nice” generals who taught how not to offend politicians?


38 posted on 07/15/2019 1:10:42 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Vermont Lt

The Sununu, Romney and Trump families know nothing of Forts Bragg, Hood or Benning...at least not from personal experience!


39 posted on 07/15/2019 1:12:19 PM PDT by MSF BU
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To: C19fan

The way we are heading it will be the USS Rapinoe and Fort Omar.


40 posted on 07/15/2019 1:13:01 PM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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