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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThese bases were named after Confederates, now titles may be ditched. Here's what vets say
As a young military service member, Richard Kingsberry said he wasnt 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 nations 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.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bases-were-named-confederates-now-090100236.html
planetc
(7,833 posts)sarisataka
(18,770 posts)Its forts after Marines
planetc
(7,833 posts)Marine Base Camp Butler in Okinawa.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Smedley Butler was a great Marine - the only man to hold the Marine Corps Brevet Medal (only 20 ever awarded) and two Medals of Honor - but the Army has enough heroes that we don't need to name one of our bases for a Marine.
planetc
(7,833 posts)And the Marines have already named a base after him. It was his great book "War is a Racket," that I always want to recommend.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)be named after Rommel or Manstein.
It's time we stopped naming our bases after losers.
Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)70sEraVet
(3,512 posts)Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)If that's okay with the Native Americans.
ripcord
(5,537 posts)They had many relatives forced into concentration camps by FDR's executive order and so they believe he is unworthy of recognition.
Kingofalldems
(38,476 posts)of military bases named after them.
No idea why FDR was brought up.
ripcord
(5,537 posts)No trial, no proof of wrong only based on their race.
Johnny2X2X
(19,114 posts)The Confederacy barely existed for a few years, it lost a war to divide our country, the fact that literally tens thousands of buildings, monuments, and other named things exist for that long gone group of traitors to America is a testament to the racism so many want to keep alive in America.
And you know that's where it comes from too, racists wanting to rub black people's nose in slavery for decades following Reconstruction. They've even named things after Klan leaders all across the South. It's the equivalent of the NRA naming monuments after mass school shooters and erecting them in front of schools where students were slaughtered to really rub the noses of the family in the deaths of their children. Don't give the NRA ideas, I know.
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)The only thing of large scale was the number of Americans killed. As to the Reb's actual 'existance' -meh!
And we CERTAINLY should not be honoring the 'leaders of the losers.' I remember a president who once said "I like people who weren't captured........"
Also, I STILL think it is outrageous that they named an airport in DC after the person who destroyed the Air Traffic Controller Union. What kind of message is THAT sending....
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Rebel general Braxton Braggs incompetence helped to preserve the Union. I would keep that name!
VGNonly
(7,505 posts)USA USA USA!!!
moonshinegnomie
(2,487 posts)bases,streets,etc....