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U.S. Army refuses to take Confederate general names off Fort Hamilton streets
New York Daily News ^ | 8/7/17 | Jason Silverstein, Kerry Burke, Ginger Adams Otis

Posted on 08/08/2017 10:43:50 AM PDT by DoodleDawg

The U.S. Army has shot down demands to rebrand two Brooklyn streets that bear the names of famous Confederate generals at the city’s only active military post.

The streets at Fort Hamilton — General Lee Ave. and Stonewall Jackson Drive — honor fighters who were “an inextricable part of our military history,” the Army wrote in a rejection letter to the New York Congressmembers who had demanded the change.

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


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KEYWORDS: army; confederate; dixie; forthamilton; purge; trumpdod; usarmy
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A small victory for sanity.
1 posted on 08/08/2017 10:43:50 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

It’s a start.......


2 posted on 08/08/2017 10:47:51 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Excellent.


3 posted on 08/08/2017 10:53:12 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: DoodleDawg

In Arizona I lived at the corner of Jeb Stuart and Robert E. Lee.


4 posted on 08/08/2017 10:53:34 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: DoodleDawg

God bless the Army for this one...


5 posted on 08/08/2017 10:58:13 AM PDT by Dont tread and Live
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To: Dawgreg
Uh oh. Don't let General McMaster find out. He'll see that the names are changed to Mohammad Drive and Koran Way.
6 posted on 08/08/2017 11:00:03 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: DoodleDawg

12 months ago the streets would’ve been renamed to “Che Street” or “Lenin Blvd”...or maybe “Diversity Avenue”.


7 posted on 08/08/2017 11:04:22 AM PDT by moovova
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To: DoodleDawg

OUTSTANDING!

Keep up the good work!


8 posted on 08/08/2017 11:12:20 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: moovova

Harvey milk drive would fit the agenda.


9 posted on 08/08/2017 11:21:06 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: eyedigress

He he he....

10 posted on 08/08/2017 11:23:17 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

I love it when those Civil War threads pop up every couple months.

Your right in the thick of it. Keep up the good work!


11 posted on 08/08/2017 11:30:20 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: DoodleDawg

Wasn’t Ft Totten NY built under the supervision of General Lee? I guess we’ll have to tear it down. I always admired the portrait of Stonewall Jackson that was on one of the walls in the O Club. If we start removing names because a few people are offended, then we have to remove all the military names, especially those from 1800 - 1900. Jackson, Scott, Crook, Custer, Howard, Sheridan, Miles, Terry, Pershing et.al.. There are many who feel they were offended by their actions against a minority. What they did or didn’t do, is part of our history regardless if it is right or wrong. $#*+ happens.


12 posted on 08/08/2017 11:32:16 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Damn, the tag line disappeared again? Coursors!)
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To: DoodleDawg

Both Lee and Jackson served at Fort Hamilton before their decision to take up arms against the United States of America.


13 posted on 08/08/2017 11:32:50 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: Bringbackthedraft

O club at Ft. Hamilton, not Totten.


14 posted on 08/08/2017 11:33:24 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Damn, the tag line disappeared again? Coursors!)
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To: DoodleDawg

Good. I’m proud of my ARMY.


15 posted on 08/08/2017 11:37:05 AM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: DoodleDawg

Emperor Hirohito was also an inextricable part of U.S. military history. But I thought we were supposed to honor those who fought for the United States of America, not insurrectionists who fought so that rich overlords could savagely beat men to within inches of their lives for daring to read the bible.

And don’t give me any “States’ rights” nonsense. The South demanded the Northern states participate in their demonic abominations.


16 posted on 08/08/2017 11:40:58 AM PDT by dangus
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To: FewsOrange

Ooh! Can we have Benedict Arnold Highway and Timothy McVeigh Way?


17 posted on 08/08/2017 11:41:43 AM PDT by dangus
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To: DoodleDawg

Thank God. A little sanity at last...


18 posted on 08/08/2017 11:42:07 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: DoodleDawg

Memo to Mitch Landrieu:
Confederate generals will be remembered long after you are nothing more than a small footnote in the chapter on New Orleans history titled “Losers we have known.”


19 posted on 08/08/2017 12:12:20 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: DoodleDawg
The U.S. Army has shot down demands ...
Interesting choice of words - LOL ...
20 posted on 08/08/2017 12:25:14 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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