Somebody commented: "We named the bases once, we can just rename them again." Why rename? Preferences and opinions go in and out of favor. Name it once, keep the name.
Somebody commented: "We named the bases once, we can just rename them again." Why rename? Preferences and opinions go in and out of favor. Name it once, keep the name.
No, you are mising the point. Read my first post. This was an era about 75 years after the Constitution. A nation of states where, to most citizens, states loyalty and priority of allegiance held sway over the new nation. When a Southern state seceded from the Union due to perceived unconstitutional aggression, then its citizens loyally followed their leaders. That is not treason.
In the case of say, Fort Bragg, it wasn't "we" who came up with the name of the baseтАФmeaning Americans, or Congress or even the Army. Instead, it was apparently the Fayetteville chamber of commerce in about 1917.
The army said sure, no problem if that's the price for quickly building a massive base here during wartime; I don't think they expected the bases even to last more than a few years back then.
As a side note, I realized this afternoon that 2 paragraphs got cut from today's newsletter due to a technical error, one of them addresses this. The other had to do with my lament that Harriet Tubman and Audie Murphy тАФ two of the toughest Americans ever тАФ aren't getting honored, at least so far.
Somebody commented: "We named the bases once, we can just rename them again." Why rename? Preferences and opinions go in and out of favor. Name it once, keep the name.
Are you missing the point that the current names honor those that committed treasonous act?
No, you are mising the point. Read my first post. This was an era about 75 years after the Constitution. A nation of states where, to most citizens, states loyalty and priority of allegiance held sway over the new nation. When a Southern state seceded from the Union due to perceived unconstitutional aggression, then its citizens loyally followed their leaders. That is not treason.
I stand by my position.
I think the key is "we," as in, who is "we?"
In the case of say, Fort Bragg, it wasn't "we" who came up with the name of the baseтАФmeaning Americans, or Congress or even the Army. Instead, it was apparently the Fayetteville chamber of commerce in about 1917.
The army said sure, no problem if that's the price for quickly building a massive base here during wartime; I don't think they expected the bases even to last more than a few years back then.
As a side note, I realized this afternoon that 2 paragraphs got cut from today's newsletter due to a technical error, one of them addresses this. The other had to do with my lament that Harriet Tubman and Audie Murphy тАФ two of the toughest Americans ever тАФ aren't getting honored, at least so far.
Here's my source on the naming of Fort Bragg: https://abc11.com/fort-bragg-renaming-braxton-confederate-leaders/6243153/