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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnd then there are all those confederate army bases
Ten Army posts in the South are named for Confederate officers including the nation's largest, Fort Bragg in North Carolina. It's named for Gen. Braxton Bragg, who commanded 40,000 troops battling the Union Army.
The others include Fort Hood in Texas; Fort Lee, Fort A.P. Hill and Fort Pickett in Virginia; Fort Polk and Camp Beauregard in Louisiana; Fort Rucker in Alabama; and Fort Benning and Fort Gordon in Georgia.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/should-10-army-bases-named-confederate-general-be-changed-n794036
uh oh
fierywoman
(7,684 posts)There's getting to be kind of a snowball effect.
fierywoman
(7,684 posts)LeftInTX
(25,349 posts)Changing street names is much more involved. The amount of work involved depends on the street's location. Everyone on the street will get a new address. All maps will need to be updated etc. A small side street is barely any work. However, a major street is alot of work.
I know that Jefferson Davis Highway is changing, but I believe the road already has other names: US Highway 1 etc.
We changed a street name downtown and it was a big deal. We wanted a street to honor Cesar Chavez. Everyone wanted to change Commerce or Market Street. However, since those were the main streets, they posed a logistical nightmare, so a street with less addresses was selected.
I support renaming streets, but I don't think it is as easy as removing a monument.
trof
(54,256 posts)riversedge
(70,239 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)Taught instrument flying as a civilian contractor. Never knew who it was named for.
hack89
(39,171 posts)Focus on the statues.
trof
(54,256 posts)GP6971
(31,162 posts)Camp Beauregard as well as Camp Shelby in MS are state owned and operated by the state National Guard. However, they started out as US Army installations for WWI.
trof
(54,256 posts)Flew F-84s with four .50 cal machine guns in wing stubs.
We flew air-to-ground (strafing) gunnery practice on the range at Ft. Shelby back in the 60s.
Fluke a Snooker
(404 posts)...then close all the bases anyway. We don't need a huge army in a world that's rapidly becoming progressively global, as armies only exist nowadays to protect the nationalist capitalists for the most part. What small military action is happening nowadays can be done through UN Peacekeeping troops.
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)Peacekeeping forces are contributed by member states on a voluntary basis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_peacekeeping
How are they working out for the Ukraine?
LeftInTX
(25,349 posts)No way will our government let go of that sacred cow.
Fluke a Snooker
(404 posts)...so that the vast majority of high-paying DoD jobs, held by mostly whites, remains? This is why we need to delegitimize the Republican Party and enact progressive agendas STAT.
thucythucy
(8,057 posts)Of "Pickett's charge" fame?
Besides the obvious issues of treason and racism, Pickett was the worst sort of officer. Blindly obeyed orders to lead his soldiers on what everyone aside from Lee knew was a suicide mission. His charge at Gettysburg was one of the worst blunders of that or any war. Any officer with guts and brains would have at least questioned the order, but Pickett, eager for some personal glory, was all gung ho about sending his men out to be slaughtered.
A definite "Jah Vohl" sort of officer. Would have fit right in at the Somme, the Charge of the Light Brigade, or any other instance of general ("general" as in commanding officer) stupidity.
Retrograde
(10,137 posts)However, it was named in the 1850s.