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.
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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.
My recording of Dixie is played by the United States Military Academy marching band.
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.
Taps for Trooper John Smith, a gallant soldier and a Christian gentleman.
Let’s send Speaker pukosi and Sen schoomur down to Alabama to dedicate a new Military Post: Fort William Tecumseh Sherman.
Dems trying to erase their racist past.
“The smartest thing national politicians ever did was to welcome the confederates back with honor, leaving their symbols and traditions intact.”
+1. exactly.
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.
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.
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.
No.
extinct, ain't it ?
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.
Don’t forget ANTIFA on your list.
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?
The Sununu, Romney and Trump families know nothing of Forts Bragg, Hood or Benning...at least not from personal experience!
The way we are heading it will be the USS Rapinoe and Fort Omar.
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