Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III
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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Just number the bases with made up military acronyms and tepp the professional grievance industry crybaby’s to pound sand. You think a service member gives a flying intercourse if they are at Fort Bragg or Army Base A82ABNTRN ?
I wish they’d get the money thing right. I played sports in High School and I don’t have no million dollars like LeBrontosaurus James.
Yes, and unquestionably, General Sherman was guilty of an endless series of war crimes
Bragg will be an especially painful one to lose to wokism. It’s so ingrained in TX history.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III
I know what you mean. I spent most of my childhood at Fort Bragg. It will always be Fort Bragg.
I’d like to see Fort Nidal Hassan! Now *there’s* a guy who knows how to speak truth to power! And we can have Fort Bradley Manning and Fort Bo Bergdahl too!
This is coming from the government that wants a Department of Misinformation. By the way, it is just on hold while they wait to change its name to fool gullible people. The parallels to Orwell's 1984 are striking. I don't want to spend a dime on this government other than to shutter everything that ruins America.
Where are the American Indian? The American Samoan? The American Chinese? The American Japanese? The American Muslims? NAMES, SLICK!? hummmmmm?
I don’t get why anyone would have wanted to be reminded of Bragg. There are other Confederate generals.
When are they going to change politicians names? Jackson Lee must be as embarrassed as hell with the handle she has?
Isn’t it amazing what hold a paltry 13% of the population can have on the other 87%????
I think that the UNINFORMED population ‘thinks’ that these bases were name by the US Army with those names and, as is with the statues and the rest of what the LEFT wants us to forget down the memory hole, there is a considerable history that is ignored. Remember, the LEFT is, as is shown in this past decade, completely unwilling to put their REVISIONIST efforts up to a popular vote. Ever wonder why?
Camps Jackson, Bragg & Benning came from WW1 with the incredible need for large spaces for the AEF needed for that war. Polk, Hill & Hood came from the same needs in WW2. The names were indigenous to their localities, chose from names suggested by those states. Let us at least remember that NONE WERE NAMED AS/FOR any racist or segregation purpose. [Note: Fort Jackson (SC) is not being renamed (yet) as President Andrew Jackson, while a slave owner, predated the US Civil War AND even quashed an early succession attempt by South Carolina in the ‘Nullification Crisis’.]
Bingo. The deal went something like this:
North: WE WON!!! But we're not going to be dicks about it. Much.
South: OK. But we're still gonna be SOUTHERN.
That worked pretty well until a bunch of perpetually offended professional victims with very dark skin started whining and crying.
Away with those foul folk.
Not true for me. When I served at Ft. Leonard Wood, I had no idea who Leonard Wood was or why the fort was named for him. When I served at Ft. Jackson with an engineering attachment from Ft. Bragg, I did not know whether Ft. Jackson was named for Andrew, Stonewall, or some other Jackson. I did not know why Ft. Bragg got its name nor could I have cared less. Same for other forts whose names I knew, Polk, Campbell, Benning, etc. I did have an idea why Ft. Benjamin Harrison got its name, but again, I could not have cared less. I did care that they got my measly pay right.
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https://www.nps.gov/arho/index.htm
The Robert E. Lee MemorialArlington House is the nation’s memorial to Robert E. Lee. It honors him for specific reasons, including his role in promoting peace and reunion after the Civil War. In a larger sense it exists as a place of study and contemplation of the meaning of some of the most difficult aspects of American history: military service; sacrifice; citizenship; duty; loyalty; slavery and freedom.
Not a vet. Still think it’s a stupid idea.
Didn’t Stephen Austin kick the Mexicans out of Texas? This clown needs to change his name. I’m offended. Hrumpf! Hrumpf!
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