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The militarys top officer on Thursday described Confederate leaders as traitors and said he is taking a hard look at renaming 10 Army installations that honor them, despite President Trumps opposition to any changes.
The Confederacy, the American Civil War was fought, and it was an act of rebellion, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, told members of the House Armed Services Committee. It was an act of treason at the time against the Union, against the Stars and Stripes, against the U.S. Constitution, and those officers turned their back on their oath.
The Army is now about 20 percent black, he said.
For those young soldiers that go onto a base a Fort Hood, a Fort Bragg or a fort wherever named after a Confederate general they can be reminded that that general fought for the institution of slavery that may have enslaved one of their ancestors, he said.
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(1,665 posts)People fighting under the confederate flag killed more Americans fighting under the United States Flag than anyone else ever.
People who got their panties in a wad "fer duh troopz!!" when Colin Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem should be in an absolute frothing rage that ANYTHING ANYWHERE is named after anyone from the confederacy. But apparently in their mind, KILLING American Soldiers isn't as big a deal as peacefully exercising the rights those soldiers died to ensure.