Time to rename our Confederate Forts

[Rambunctious]

Confederate Forts?????
Have all liberals lost heir minds?....

 

[rightwinger]

We need to ask......What have these men done to deserve such an honor?

AP HIll, Braxton Bragg, George Pickett, John Bell Hood......why should they be honored?

Trump opposes efforts to remove Confederate commanders' names from military bases

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he opposes any effort by the US military to rename the nearly one dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders.

www.cnn.com

And members of the military will tell you to go pound sand.

Let’s hear from them

Ft Polk or Ft Patton?

 

[Redcurtain]

Lol democrats can’t get over that trump won, haha

WTF does that have to do with Confederate Generals?

This is just a temper tantrum because trump won, and you know this angers traditional Americans

 

[theHawk]

We need to ask......What have these men done to deserve such an honor?

AP HIll, Braxton Bragg, George Pickett, John Bell Hood......why should they be honored?

Trump opposes efforts to remove Confederate commanders' names from military bases

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he opposes any effort by the US military to rename the nearly one dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders.

www.cnn.com

And members of the military will tell you to go pound sand.

Let’s hear from them

Ft Polk or Ft Patton?

Fort Polk. Thanks for asking.

Now, when is the Democrat Party going to change its name, since it was the Confederate party and fought for slavery?

 

[MarathonMike]

How about leave history in the past? FFS the Civil War was 150 years ago. Do we see Chinese Americans flipping out and demanding reparations for the abuses of the Coolies?

 

[Tommy Tainant]

No , you were showing your ignorance.

I know that Auschwitz is in Poland. I was talking about Germany and the Nazis.

You thought it was in Germany ya lying slag.

 

[Rambunctious]

We need to ask......What have these men done to deserve such an honor?

AP HIll, Braxton Bragg, George Pickett, John Bell Hood......why should they be honored?

Trump opposes efforts to remove Confederate commanders' names from military bases

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he opposes any effort by the US military to rename the nearly one dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders.

www.cnn.com

And members of the military will tell you to go pound sand.

Let’s hear from them

Ft Polk or Ft Patton?

 

[lennypartiv]

Why? The Lost Cause movement

Just because you see it as a lost cause doesn't mean everyone sees it as a lost cause.

 

[rightwinger]

We need to ask......What have these men done to deserve such an honor?

AP HIll, Braxton Bragg, George Pickett, John Bell Hood......why should they be honored?

Trump opposes efforts to remove Confederate commanders' names from military bases

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he opposes any effort by the US military to rename the nearly one dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders.

www.cnn.com

And members of the military will tell you to go pound sand.

Let’s hear from them

Ft Polk or Ft Patton?

Fort Polk. Thanks for asking.

Now, when is the Democrat Party going to change its name, since it was the Confederate party and fought for slavery?

What was so great about Gen Polk that he deserves a major Army Fort over Gen Patton?

 

[Dick Foster]

We need to ask......What have these men done to deserve such an honor?

AP HIll, Braxton Bragg, George Pickett, John Bell Hood......why should they be honored?

Trump opposes efforts to remove Confederate commanders' names from military bases

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he opposes any effort by the US military to rename the nearly one dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders.

www.cnn.com

What Confederate forts? You're a couple of hundred years off dummy. I'm sure it brings a tear to your eye but the confederacy of the democratic party is long ago dead.

 

[rightwinger]

Why? The Lost Cause movement

Just because you see it as a lost cause doesn't mean everyone sees it as a lost cause.

Look up Lost Cause
It was a movement that redefined the Confederacy
Why we honor Confederate Generals over Union Generals

 

[rightwinger]

We need to ask......What have these men done to deserve such an honor?

AP HIll, Braxton Bragg, George Pickett, John Bell Hood......why should they be honored?

Trump opposes efforts to remove Confederate commanders' names from military bases

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he opposes any effort by the US military to rename the nearly one dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders.

www.cnn.com

What Confederate forts? You're a couple of hundred years off dummy. I'm sure it brings a tear to your eye but the confederacy of the democratic party is long ago dead.

A Fort named after a Confederate General is a Confederate Fort

Why not name Forts after great American Generals instead?

 

[CremeBrulee]

We need to ask......What have these men done to deserve such an honor?

AP HIll, Braxton Bragg, George Pickett, John Bell Hood......why should they be honored?

Trump opposes efforts to remove Confederate commanders' names from military bases

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he opposes any effort by the US military to rename the nearly one dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders.

www.cnn.com

And members of the military will tell you to go pound sand.

Let’s hear from them

Ft Polk or Ft Patton?

Patton would be way too controversial for the Left as well. According to a recent Politico article he was a Jew hating Nazi lover. That's the problem with this shit. Any name you might come up with will have some sort of stigma attached to it by someone. I guess you could start naming things after inanimate objects like Fort Table or Fort Pizza.

 

[rightwinger]

Gen Pickett had his forces massacred attacking Union lines at Gettysburg

Why not honor Gen Hancock who was a better General and defended the UNION

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

Long overdue! Even many Republicans and top military leaders support this very sensible change. The bipartisan Senate Armed Services Committee, headed by Republicans, proposed these changes.

Republican Senator Roy Blunt, who represents Missouri, which was in the Confederacy, said he had no problem changing the bases’ names. “If you want to continue to name forts after soldiers, there have been a lot of great soldiers who have come along since the Civil War,” Blunt told reporters.

He noted that Braxton Bragg, who is honored at the sprawling base in North Carolina, was “probably the worst commanding general in the entire Confederate Army. He’s an interesting guy to name a fort after.”

 

[rightwinger]

We need to ask......What have these men done to deserve such an honor?

AP HIll, Braxton Bragg, George Pickett, John Bell Hood......why should they be honored?

Trump opposes efforts to remove Confederate commanders' names from military bases

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he opposes any effort by the US military to rename the nearly one dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders.

www.cnn.com

And members of the military will tell you to go pound sand.

Let’s hear from them

Ft Polk or Ft Patton?

Patton would be way too controversial for the Left as well. According to a recent Politico article he was a Jew hating Nazi lover. That's the problem with this shit. Any name you might come up with will have some sort of stigma attached to it by someone. I guess you could start naming things after inanimate objects like Fort Table or Fort Pizza.

Better General and an AMERICAN hero.
Nazi lover? I think not

 

[CremeBrulee]

Gen Pickett had his forces massacred attacking Union lines at Gettysburg

Why not honor Gen Hancock who was a better General and defended the UNION

Nope. There is the whole Native American chapter to his service in the West and he participated in the theft of northern Mexico prior to the Civil War.

 

[rightwinger]

Long overdue. Even many Republicans and top military leaders support this very sensible change. The bipartisan Senatorial sub-committee this latest suggestion comes from is majority Republican.

“Republican Senator Roy Blunt, who represents Missouri, which was in the Confederacy, said he had no problem changing the bases’ names.
“If you want to continue to name forts after soldiers, there have been a lot of great soldiers who have come along since the Civil War,” Blunt told reporters.
He noted that Braxton Bragg, who is honored at the sprawling base in North Carolina, was “probably the worst commanding general in the entire Confederate Army. He’s an interesting guy to name a fort after.”

Long overdue

Why honor mediocre Confederate Generals who killed American soldiers when we have Generals like Grant, Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton who are more deserving?

 

[CremeBrulee]

We need to ask......What have these men done to deserve such an honor?

AP HIll, Braxton Bragg, George Pickett, John Bell Hood......why should they be honored?

Trump opposes efforts to remove Confederate commanders' names from military bases

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he opposes any effort by the US military to rename the nearly one dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders.

www.cnn.com

And members of the military will tell you to go pound sand.

Let’s hear from them

Ft Polk or Ft Patton?

Patton would be way too controversial for the Left as well. According to a recent Politico article he was a Jew hating Nazi lover. That's the problem with this shit. Any name you might come up with will have some sort of stigma attached to it by someone. I guess you could start naming things after inanimate objects like Fort Table or Fort Pizza.

Better General and an AMERICAN hero.
Nazi lover? I think not

"Disturbingly, Patton had zero sympathy for the Holocaust victims living in wretched, overcrowded collection camps under his command. He was unable to imagine that people living in such misery were not there because of their own flaws. The displaced Jews were “locusts,” “lower than animals,” “lost to all decency.” They were “a subhuman species without any of the cultural or social refinements of our times,” Patton wrote in his diary. "

"Patton wasn’t interested in denazification or creating a lesson for future tyrants. He thought it was “madness” to imprison Nazis, good soldiers who were much more valuable as future allies against the Soviets than the Jewish survivors he was charged with protecting and feeding. "

It goes on and on. That would be a big **** no from the Left.

The Problem With Trump’s Admiration of General Patton

“Old Blood and Guts” was undeniably a winner. The real trouble came after he won.

www.politico.com

 

[OldLady]

We need to ask......What have these men done to deserve such an honor?

AP HIll, Braxton Bragg, George Pickett, John Bell Hood......why should they be honored?

Trump opposes efforts to remove Confederate commanders' names from military bases

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he opposes any effort by the US military to rename the nearly one dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders.

www.cnn.com

All the ones you named except Fort Bragg were built during WWII. Per WaPo:

Who are the bases named after?
The bases, all in former Confederate states, were named with input from locals in the Jim Crow era. The Army courted their buy-in because it needed large swaths of land to build sprawling bases in the early 20th century up through World War II.

Three of the biggest bases in the United States are named after Confederate leaders, including some who were famously inept.

Fort Bragg in North Carolina, the headquarters of the Special Forces, bears the name of Gen. Braxton Bragg, a commander often assailed as one of the most bumbling commanders in the war. Bragg was relieved of command after losing the battle for Chattanooga in 1863, then served as a military adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Fort Benning in Georgia, the home of Army infantry and airborne training, is named after Brig. Gen. Henry Benning, who led troops at Antietam and Gettysburg. In remarks in 1861 laying out slavery as the reason for secession, Benning warned that abolition would lead to “black governors, black legislatures, black juries, black everything. Is it to be supposed that the white race will stand for that?”

Fort Hood in Texas is named after John Bell Hood, who resigned his commission in the U.S. Army to fight against it. His “reckless” command hastened the fall of Atlanta, one historian wrote, and his losses at the Battle of Franklin were so disastrous that they have been called the “Pickett’s Charge of the West,” in reference to a bloody and failed assault named for Maj. Gen. George Pickett, one of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s top commanders at Gettysburg.
Unlike Bragg and Benning, Hood has no prewar roots in the state that has a post named after him. He commanded Texas troops but was born in Kentucky and buried in Louisiana.

The other bases named after Confederate commanders are Forts Lee, Pickett and A.P. Hill in Virginia, Forts Polk and Beauregard in Louisiana, Fort Gordon in Georgia and Fort Rucker in Alabama.

Why have efforts stalled in the past?
The Army, steeped in its history and traditions, has fought efforts to rename the installations and even the names of roads on its posts, saying in 2017 that such moves would be “controversial and divisive.”
As recently as February, McCarthy said there were no plans to rename the posts. The power to name posts falls to the assistant secretary of the army for manpower and reserve affairs.
McCarthy believes he can unilaterally change the names but would need input from the White House, lawmakers and state and local officials, CNN reported.

Who could bases be named after if they were changed?
The biggest formal push to rename an installation is to reflag Fort Hood after Roy Benavidez, a Green Beret who received the Medal of Honor for action in Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

Benavidez endured “six hours in hell,” he would later say of a 1968 battle in which he held his intestines in his hand, stabbed an enemy soldier to death and loaded the wounded and dead onto two helicopters.
He later said he had so many injuries and was so bloodied he was mistaken for a dead man and stuffed in a body bag until he spat in a doctor’s face. He earned five Purple Hearts in combat.
Benavidez died in 1998, and his name is on a stretch of highway, a Navy cargo ship, a short graphic novel, a commemorative G.I. Joe figure and, in a nod to his passion for education, several Texas schools. The League of United Latin American Citizens, an advocacy group, urged the Army last year to rename Fort Hood for him.

In recent days, veterans and others have lobbied for other historical figures, opening the door for women and minorities. One is Mary Edwards Walker, a surgeon and prisoner during the Civil War and the only woman who has received the Medal of Honor.

Calls on Twitter also intensified to rename Fort Benning after Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe, a black soldier and Georgia native whose actions in Iraq quickly became legend.
In 2005, his vehicle was destroyed by an improvised explosive device and consumed in flames. Cashe entered the Bradley three times to rescue six soldiers while he himself was on fire. He died of his injuries weeks later.
Cashe received the Silver Star for his heroism, although many say he deserved the Medal of Honor. Renaming Fort Benning after him, advocates have said, would correct at least one injustice.