U.S. military finishes renaming bases that previously honored Confederates
U.S. military finishes renaming bases that previously honored Confederates
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U.S. military finishes renaming bases that previously honored Confederates
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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
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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".
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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
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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."
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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."
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At least it's finally done. It took years to even get it started and tons of Confederate defenders protesting it.