Trump To Announce On US Army's Birthday, The Renaming Of Bases To People Who Killed Soldiers In The US Army

[skews13]

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was restoring the names of Confederate officers to seven U.S. military bases. Many of those bases located in the South were given Confederate names in the middle of the 20th Century, at a time when southern states were still restricting the voting and assembly rights of Black Americans through Jim Crow laws.

MSN

Next he plans on renaming Reagan airport to Hitler airfield, and Pearl Harbor to Hirohito Beach.

 

[conserveguy877]

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was restoring the names of Confederate officers to seven U.S. military bases. Many of those bases located in the South were given Confederate names in the middle of the 20th Century, at a time when southern states were still restricting the voting and assembly rights of Black Americans through Jim Crow laws.

MSN

Next he plans on renaming Reagan airport to Hitler airfield, and Pearl Harbor to Hirohito Beach.

What about eggs?

 

[pknopp]

They will just get changed back but this makes it hard for Trump to argue he isn't an out and out racist.

 

[Moonglow]

What about eggs?

They do work well in taking the paint off yer car.

 

[Moonglow]

They will just get changed back but this makes it hard for Trump to argue he isn't an out and out racist.

He's just a Bluebelly carpetbagger.

 

[pknopp]

He's just a Bluebelly carpetbagger.

Maybe.

 

[DukeU]

They will just get changed back but this makes it hard for Trump to argue he isn't an out and out racist.

No, it doesn't.

 

[DGS49]

TDS

 

[Oddball]

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was restoring the names of Confederate officers to seven U.S. military bases. Many of those bases located in the South were given Confederate names in the middle of the 20th Century, at a time when southern states were still restricting the voting and assembly rights of Black Americans through Jim Crow laws.

MSN

Next he plans on renaming Reagan airport to Hitler airfield, and Pearl Harbor to Hirohito Beach.

 

[Moonglow]

Trump is a traitor and loves traitors from the Confederacy.

 

[Nostra]

Skrewy’s threads just keep getting dumber.

 

[odanny]

All the black servicemen serving our country now know where they stand under Trump.

Let's get back to Jim Crow.

Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Kondor3]

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was restoring the names of Confederate officers to seven U.S. military bases.

Excellent.

If the men of the Union Army, who actually fought their wayward Southern countrymen for four years, could forgive and welcome back those honorable men who had fought and lost for what they believed in, and if the men of the Union Army and their Northern fellow countrymen could allow those brethren to erect memorials to fallen Southern heroes in order to renew and cement the bonds of fellowship between North and South, we should not allow Revisionist Social Engineers to undo those honors and fellowship a hundred and sixty years later.

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Union General Joshua Chamberlain (the hero of the Defense of Little Round Top at Gettysburg) himself rendered honors to his defeated fellow countrymen on the very day that they surrendered...

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In his memoir The Passing of the Armies (1915), Chamberlain recalled the moment vividly:

"Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood: men whom neither toils and sufferings, nor the fact of death, nor disaster, nor hopelessness could bend from their resolve; standing before us now, thin, worn, and famished, but erect, and with eyes looking level into ours, waking memories that bound us together as no other bond."

As the infantrymen of Confederate General John B. Gordon filed past lines of Union soldiers to surrender their arms, Chamberlain did something special. Reasoning that “such manhood” deserved to be “welcomed back into a Union so tested and assured,” he ordered his men to shift their rifles from the “order – arms” position into the “carry” position.

Gordon, in his own memoir, remembered with gratitude this “soldierly salute to those vanquished heroes.” He viewed it as “a token of respect from Americans to Americans, a final and fitting tribute from Northern to Southern chivalry.” Neither was Gordon alone. Many Americans have praised Chamberlain’s actions since, as a Lincoln-esque gesture to help quickly reunite the shattered nation.

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The naming (and, now, re-naming) of those Federal military bases back to their original names, is both proper and fitting as a continuing commitment to binding the fellowship between North and South and not debasing or erasing old honors.

These names are Traditional American and deserve to see the Light of Day again. For those few snowflakes that continue to be offended by such History they're simply going to have to suck-it-up and deal with it... the World as it SHOULD be... thank God.

And this from a Northerner (me) who would have been a Union Man through-and-through...

 

[drudge X]

Next thing you know, leftists say the renaming caused 10 black guys to loot a Foot Locker.

 

[Nostra]

All the black servicemen serving our country now know where they stand under Trump.

Let's get back to Jim Crow.

Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

These guys have lost all touch with reality.

 

[White 6]

I have no problem with changing the names back to the original historic names. I have been to several of these bases and these were the names of them, back when I was serving. They should not have been changed in the first place. I am also against much of the tearing down of monuments and statues, as if removing them changed history. I am also against the changing of sports teams names, due to new-found sensitivities.

 

[Grumblenuts]

I have no problem with changing the names back to the original historic names. I have been to several of these bases and these were the names of them, back when I was serving. They should not have been changed in the first place. I am also against much of the tearing down of monuments and statues, as if removing them changed history. I am also against the changing of sports teams names, due to new-found sensitivities.

Okay, for starters:

Fort Bragg. Same name. Millions spent changing it to "Fort Liberty." Presumably millions more spent changing it back to "Bragg." Different guy though.. Was that due to "new-found sensitivities"? The "original historic name" remains unknown or unclear. Many Native tribes inhabited the area for thousands of years.

Fort Hood. "Native Americans, including the Tonkawa, Comanche, Kiowa, and Waco, occupied the region beginning over twelve thousand years ago."

Etc.

 

[martybegan]

Trump is a traitor and loves traitors from the Confederacy.

Those "traitors" were forgiven by the people who fought them for the purpose of re-uniting the country.

 

[Billiejeens]

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was restoring the names of Confederate officers to seven U.S. military bases. Many of those bases located in the South were given Confederate names in the middle of the 20th Century, at a time when southern states were still restricting the voting and assembly rights of Black Americans through Jim Crow laws.

MSN

Next he plans on renaming Reagan airport to Hitler airfield, and Pearl Harbor to Hirohito Beach.

Elections have consequences

 

[martybegan]

I have no problem with changing the names back to the original historic names. I have been to several of these bases and these were the names of them, back when I was serving. They should not have been changed in the first place. I am also against much of the tearing down of monuments and statues, as if removing them changed history. I am also against the changing of sports teams names, due to new-found sensitivities.

The only statue/memorial I thought should go was the one in New Orleans dedicated to a white overthrow of the black elected government.

Battle of Liberty Place - Wikipedia

I give them that one.

The Battle of Liberty Place, or Battle of Canal Street, was an attempted insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction Era Louisiana Republican state government on September 14, 1874, in New Orleans, which was the capital of Louisiana at the time. Five thousand members of the White League, a paramilitary organization made up largely of Confederate veterans, fought against the outnumbered racially integrated New Orleans Metropolitan Police and state militia. The insurgents held the statehouse, armory, and downtown for three days, retreating before arrival of federal troops that restored the elected government. At least 35 people, including at least 21 White League members, were killed in the fighting. No insurgents were charged in the action.