There are about 10-12 Army forts named for Confederate generals -- some of them piss-poor general at that -- who helped wage war against the United States in conscious acts of treason. They are major installations like Fort Hood, Fort Bragg, Fort Benning.
The Pentagon is backing the change and public sentiment is on that side too. The way a lot are looking at it is there is not much difference in honoring Confederate generals in this manner and waving the flag that these generals fought under.
There's a push to rename them for real American military heroes -- men who fought for the U.S., and not against it. Charles Beckwith, Alvin York, and to rename Fort Hood in Texas for Texan Roy Benavidez. Benavidez, who received the Medal of Honor in Vietnam, rescued 8 wounded Special Ops men, survived 30 gunshot wounds and pieces of shrapnel and spit in the the face of a doctor who was about to zip him in a body bag to prove he was alive.
But, of course, there's one man who won't hear of it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/take-confederate-names-off-our-army-bases/612832/
The Pentagon is backing the change and public sentiment is on that side too. The way a lot are looking at it is there is not much difference in honoring Confederate generals in this manner and waving the flag that these generals fought under.
There's a push to rename them for real American military heroes -- men who fought for the U.S., and not against it. Charles Beckwith, Alvin York, and to rename Fort Hood in Texas for Texan Roy Benavidez. Benavidez, who received the Medal of Honor in Vietnam, rescued 8 wounded Special Ops men, survived 30 gunshot wounds and pieces of shrapnel and spit in the the face of a doctor who was about to zip him in a body bag to prove he was alive.
But, of course, there's one man who won't hear of it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/take-confederate-names-off-our-army-bases/612832/
