The main gate at the US Army post at Fort Hood, Texas, in an undated photograph.REUTERS/III Corps Public Affairs/U.S. Army/Handout
Business Insider: These are the 10 US military bases still named after Confederate soldiers
Despite seceding and eventually losing the Civil War, the Confederacy lives on in a number of monuments in almost every state in the country.
But it's not just monuments — like the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville that led to an eruption of violence on August 12 — that are dedicated to Confederate officers.
Schools, highways, parks, streets, and even US military bases are named after Confederate figures.
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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- August 20, 2017
US Army mum on whether bases will keep Confederate names -- FOX News
How Did The US Military Get All Those Confederate-Named Bases, Anyway? -- Mark Herbert, Task & Purpose
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8 comments:
Did some time at Ft Hood and also Ft Lee, Virginia
Patton had relatives who fought for the CSA, so did Chesty Puller. Better purge their names and histories from the military.
Next? Street names, then music, then cotton in clothing, then ??????????????
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that is not what any sane person has suggested. every native southener has relatives, perhaps, who fought for the confeds, but we continue to allow them full citizenship...and we do not put up statues for each one. We put up statues for WWI and II but not for this and that general
If you do not like the removal of statues, say so...but why oh why suggest music or cotton when no one with an ounce of sanity wants to do that? ten presidents owned slaves either in or out of office but they did something for their nation besides fighting to break away from the nation and to uphold slavery
Fred, I think he's mentioning street names, music, and cotton sarcastically. It's been demonstrated already that this "anti-statue" mentality is already expanding past statues commemorating confederates. There have been calls for George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Joan of Arc statues and memorials to be removed or defunded (see links below).
My question is, where does this 'slippery slope' end? These people did amazing things and deserve to be honored; we should never forget them. Of course I see why some want the confederate statues destroyed, but we should be able to compromise on this. Why not leave some sort of display by the statues explaining why their ideology is unacceptable? Why not let the cities remove them and place them into a museum so we can preserve history? Either of those options seem like rational compromises to me.
Nobody's perfect. Just because we honor the good in people doesn't necessarily mean we need to forget the bad. Sure a few presidents owned slaves - should they then be demonized? JFK, Clinton, and many other presidents cheated on their wives - should they be remembered as being misogynists? I don't thinks so.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/08/17/al_sharpton_defund_the_jefferson_memorial_asking_me_to_subsidize_the_insult_of_my_family.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/08/18/cnns_angela_rye_washington_jefferson_statues_need_to_come_down.html
https://aleteia.org/2017/08/17/joan-of-arc-caught-up-in-statue-toppling-movement/
There are those who are known, memorialized for both favoring and leading the fight to leave the union and maintain slavery. And then there are those who went beyond a single issue and offered services to advance the nation. Faulkner, for example, is honored (now) at the Univ of Mississippi, though he said if there were a showdown beteen the govt and his state he would defend his state. What he offered us is one of the best of fiction dealing with the scars and the stains of slavery. The extreme would be of course to get rid of all things tied to slavery, in which case, who wrote the constituion and declaration and should we dump those items? of course not.
And then there are military bases named for Civil War Confedrate heroes. Do we change those names? hard to say. After all, in WWII our military was still segregated!
My view is that many of those generals on horseback, southern generals, etc. were to keep up the myth of the old south, the South that wanted to end the union and maintain slavery. For me they represent an attempt to memoralize and mythologize the Civil War.
aaa I wasn't actually being sarcastic. Once the witch hunt gets started nobody will know where it will stop and as the South starts to rally any person, place or thing could become a target. Heaven knows there is plenty of dirt at all levels going way back and that dirt will fuel some kind of resurrection leading to the destruction or tearing down of what are considered historically sacred monuments.
Then again, and this is sarcasm, Americans seem to have trouble standing up for anything for enough time to actually accomplish anything. The Vietnam protests were perhaps the last time serious fortitude in the masses was evident.
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