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To: databoss

I think Jeff Davis Hwy (US Rt 1) is next.


70 posted on 06/23/2015 9:21:21 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

What you said illustrates the greater problem.

I happen to think Admiral Bill Halsey was one of the greatest fighting men this country has produced, and he has had schools, roads, bridges, etc. named after him, and rightfully so.

It isn’t too much of a stretch to think of a circumstance where he becomes a persona no grata because during the war he unleashed tirades of what would today be called racist vitriol.

His memory and what he stood for are dear to me. But I don’t have to think too hard to see a situation where someone agitates to have his name removed from a school or road somewhere.

Look at what we have now. Just thirty years ago, people would have thought you were insane if you described a fraction of the weirdness we see today.


77 posted on 06/23/2015 9:29:00 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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