U.S. military finishes renaming bases that previously honored Confederates
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-military-renaming-bases-previously-honored-confederates/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-military-renaming-bases-previously-honored-confederates/
17 Comments
Silverseren@kbin.social · 22 pts · 2y
At least it's finally done. It took years to even get it started and tons of Confederate defenders protesting it.
psmgx@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y
Id say there should be a Fort MacArthur, but it would have to be the largest of all of the forts, and free from any oversight
PugJesus@kbin.social · 10 pts · 2y
"I didn't fire him because he was a dumb sonofabitch, though he was... I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president."
Rapidcreek@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 2y
Like Fort Ike, but still holding out for Fort Audey Murphy
thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
How isn't there a fort named after him!? Isn't he one of the MOST decorated GIs in history?
Rapidcreek@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 2y
Not one of the most, THE most.
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Two-time Medal of Honor awardee, General Smedley Butler is a very strong contender.
He may not have as many, but not all awards are valued the same.
Illuminostro@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Butler has all but been erased from history. He fucked with the money, you see. For those of you who don't know, Butler snitched almost 100 years ago about a corporate plot to overthrow the US government. Sound familiar?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler?wprov=sfla1
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
Because he has a dark history of spousal abuse, drug abuse, and mental illness. Likely caused by the events that earned him two Medal of Honors
Nythos@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Not likely caused by, most certainly caused by.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
I find it amusing and satisfying that the US Navy has kept naming ships Kearsarge in honor of the first ship with that name, a sloop-of-war built during the Civil War to hunt down and sink Confederate raiders. It's just an ongoing floating "fuck you" to the South.
Interestingly, they even named a battleship Kearsarge at one point, the only US battleship ever built that was not named after a state. I think this glitch on an otherwise perfect record can be corrected: I support granting statehood to Puerto Rico on the condition that they rename themselves "Kearsarge".
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Nah we have North and South Carolina/Dakota and a West Virginia that separated just to fight confederate ideals - let’s just rename one of those instead of colonizing even harder
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
All those have had battleship(s) named after them, though. If you rename one of them to Kearsarge, you still have the battleship naming convention problem.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
What I’m hearing, is the moon is now named Kearsarge.
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
moipe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Now to get the names of things changed in the surrounding cities. "Yeah just take the Ft. Hood exit and you'll drive straight up to Ft. Cavasos."
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
I doubt Bragg Boulevard is ever going to be renamed.
It's also going to take generations before anyone calls it anything other than "Fort Bragg I Mean Fort Liberty."