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Congressional Campaign to Remove Confederate Names Targets Hundreds of Military Sites

The congressional push to remove Confederate names from Pentagon properties, including storied Army posts, could eventually affect hundreds of items and facilities, the chair of the Naming Commission said Friday.

Michelle Howard, a retired Navy admiral who heads the commission, told reporters her group began its work in March, with an interim report due to Congress in October and a final report a year later.

She said the eight-member group is still developing the renaming criteria and will begin its site visits with a trip to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. The academy has a barracks named for Robert E. Lee, commanding general of the rebel army of the Confederate States of America.

Howard said the commission is required by Congress to consider renaming “anything that commemorates the Confederate States of America or any person that served voluntarily with the Confederate States of America.”

This applies only to Defense Department properties, not state-owned military facilities.

Public scrutiny has been focused on Army bases such as Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which is named for Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, and Fort Benning, Georgia, named for Brig. Gen. Henry L. Benning.

Howard said the commission will more broadly consider the names of military base streets, for example, as well as ships, aircraft and Defense Department buildings.

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12 thoughts on “Congressional Campaign to Remove Confederate Names Targets Hundreds of Military Sites”

  1. Another way to erase history. History needs to be taught and built upon not destroyed to pacify a few.

  2. Every change initiates a cost.

    When it comes to fiscal responsibility AND with limited resourcing, the question must always be asked – is the cost a true requirement or a nice to have?

    Don’t need to be a resource mgmt expert to know the correct answer.

    SHEESH

  3. And the Lame A$$ RINO’s and weak Republicans will roll over and allow it to happen just like they did with the stolen election!

  4. I love history! Ripping down statues is unacceptable. They do tell a story if one is willing to listen and learn. But at the same time there is a glaring inconsistency in initially naming military facilities or other public structures for rebels who took up arms against our country. The fact these bases, etc. have carried these names for extended periods of time doesn’t cure the problem. Dropping those names is appropriate.

    What to replace them with becomes the next hurdle. The current regime will probably go PC in a stampede.

    Cooler heads should prevail. I propose naming the facilities after Medal of Honor recipients; their names are all known. Names in rotating lottery drums by military branch, tumble, pick. Repeat until all facilities getting a new name have one, with one proviso. So only USMC heroes would be on USMC facilities; Army on Army, Navy on Navy, etc. Combo branch facilities named by putting remaining names together and continuing the process.

    Our service members would then work and train with heroes to inspire them.

  5. Whites are READY & will Take Back OUR Country , just wait & see !!!! Democrats need to be Banned !!!!!

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