TIFFANY CUSAAC-SMITH
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RICHARD KINGSBERRY
Posted on 06/06/2022 6:01:27 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
As a young military service member, Richard Kingsberry said he wasn’t aware that two of the bases where he served had been named after Confederate leaders Braxton Bragg and Robert E. Lee.
That realization would happen later, but it helped sparked him to join the effort to see names on military boats, installations and other places removed, saying that they sent the wrong message about the nation’s history and ideals.
The effort to remove the namesakes of those who aligned themselves with the Confederacy hit a critical step as the Naming Commission recently put forth several names to replace military installations such as Fort Lee and Bragg that are named in honor of Confederate leaders.
In its place, installations may be named after women, people of African and Latino descent and other national leaders such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, a former president and general.
“I think it is the appropriate thing to do to rename these military bases that are named after Confederate individuals,” said Kingsberry, commander of the National Association for Black Veterans.
He added: “That's an honor that we don't believe that they should be bestowed upon them because of their actions in going against this country, and their actions to support the institution of slavery.”
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TIFFANY CUSAAC-SMITH
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RICHARD KINGSBERRY
These dumbasses don’t realize the base naming in the south was largely about NATIONAL RECONCILIATION.
Usually you know why your base is named as such ...
Will the commander of the new Fort Eisenhower have a portrait of General Lee in his office the way the president did?
The kissing of Black ass continues unabated
This liberal sh*t show is going to cost the American taxpayers heap big bucks. Heap big bucks. Just for some childish Snowflake BULLSH*T! Changing these names is probably the most retarded thing the far left clown politicians have done so far.
Ridiculous. The bases were named as part of reconciliation between the regions and as an acknowledgement of the nation’s history. Not surprisingly these PC Revisionists want to rewrite history to suit their Leftist politics.
Are the new names be Marx, Lenin, Mao and Floyd?
Name changing will cost $millions (a small drop in the larger picture) to go woke and placate the radical left, while most Vets don't know, or care, why a base has a particular name.
Get ready. Here comes Fort Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg and Fort Cesar Chavez. ROTFL. The Chinese and Japanese who won’t get a fort name are laughing at us. No fort named after American Indians? Why not. Morons.
Reconciliation doesn’t matter
Kissing Black ass is all that matters
This is sad. I was born at the hospital at Ft. Lee.
So when do we remove Harvey Milk?
“Richard Kingsberry said he wasn’t aware that two of the bases where he served had been named after Confederate leaders Braxton Bragg and Robert E. Lee.”
Anyone that stupid shouldn’t even be allowed to work with scissors much less be in any position of power.
Of course they know. Or at least those at the top pushing it know. They are not in favor of reconciliation at all.
It is a movement to erase you entirely, with Confederates as the thin edge of the wedge.
Peaceful coexistence is not part of their program.
Anthony Lowe
Yawn. You can’t respect the warrior but not the cause?
One more time...i did not serve at Ft. Wanaka. I did not serve at FOB 0bama, nor did I serve on the Harvey Milk.
My DD Form 214 is now null and void.
F’em.
5.56mm
Gives new meaning to Abrams tank.
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