U.S. military finishes renaming bases that previously honored Confederates

CBS News ^ | OCTOBER 27, 2023 / 1:43 PM / | BY ELEANOR WATSON

[chuckb87]

You left out Harvey Milk
Navy already named a ship for him.

Are you serious? Our military is screwed.

[AndyJackson]

technology now used by just about everyone.

As an old ham and former Navy comms officer I have to report that the world has moved on to software defined radio.

[AZJeep]

The resulting confusion.
How much damage will that cause?

[Salman]

A lot of bases might still be named for people who are "problematic" for reasons other than that they were Confederates.

Some of the Revolutionary War heroes owned slaves, for one thing.

More recent famous names might well have said something on the record uncomplimentary about homosexuals.

etc

Maybe they will end up numbering the bases.

[Salman]

A lot of bases might still be named for people who are "problematic" for reasons other than that they were Confederates.

Some of the Revolutionary War heroes owned slaves, for one thing.

More recent famous names might well have said something on the record uncomplimentary about homosexuals.

etc

Maybe they will end up numbering the bases.

[dfwgator]

I’m not a big fan of naming bases and ships after people in the first place.

They used to name ships after the names of States.

[Red Badger]

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[Texas resident]

The war between the states was an economic war between the oppressive industrial North and the agricultural South regarding States’ Rights. Abraham Lincoln made slavery a cause to get behind 2 years into the war because of draft riots in the Northern cities. The Northern soldiers didn’t have a cause to fight for. The Southerners did.

[Liberty Ship]

Well, I would be all in favor of seeing a Ft. Jackson-Lee.

:-D

[x]

Abraham Lincoln made slavery a cause to get behind 2 years into the war because of draft riots in the Northern cities.

The big draft riots happened after the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Northern soldiers didn’t have a cause to fight for.

The flag. The country. The union. The Constitution. Those things mattered a lot in the 19th century.

The Southerners did.

Southern soldiers came to wonder just what they were fighting for and whether it was all worth it.

[ducttape45]

Absolutely disgusting, and the military wonders why their recruitment levels are so low.....

[Bull Snipe]

The did name a ship after him.

[Delta 21]

Well, isn’t that nice.

[Texas Fossil]

Still More ☭#Dem_Insanity!

[Billthedrill]

I would be all in favor of seeing a Ft. Jackson-Lee.

I know. I recommended they name a fort in honor of Jesse Jackson and Spike Lee and they said Jackson-Lee is right out for some reason. The committee is probably racist.

[DiogenesLamp]

I don’t think Eisenhower would have approved.

[DiogenesLamp]

Should be undone immediately by Trump upon reelection

Yup. It's a breach of the intent of past governments to smooth over the hatred caused by the war.

[DiogenesLamp]

What is funny about this is that all those confederates were democrats!

Just a label. In that era, Democrats were conservative and Republicans were liberal.

[DiogenesLamp]

Have they renamed the Democrat Party yet? They were the reason we had a Civil War in the first place.

Nope. The Civil war was fought over money, and nothing else. The South produced 72% of the total tax revenue for the nation, and when they left, the Federal government wanted that money back.

[NorthMountain]

Original names given in a spirit of reconciliation that has long vanished.

Indeed.

The deal was that the South would accept that the Union won, and the Union wouldn't be jerks about it.

The Union is reneging on the deal, to appease the descendants of people who didn't earn their freedom but were handed it on a silver platter paid for with other peoples' blood.