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re: Fort Polk officially renamed
Posted on 6/14/23 at 11:21 am to mcpotiger
Posted on 6/14/23 at 11:21 am to mcpotiger
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Yea , cause renaming shite to make it PC is gonna fix this broke arse country. Stupid!!
You act like this is some monumental effort that takes the full effort of 2 branches of government. Why should we have forts named after literal traitors to the USA?
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Posted on 6/14/23 at 11:25 am to Jester
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Why should we have forts named after literal traitors to the USA?
why didn't we prosecute Hirohito after WWII?
Posted on 6/14/23 at 11:31 am to Darth_Vader
What a joke our country has become.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 11:34 am to Tigah Jr
Just white guilt
Wealthy white people feel guilty about living on "stolen land" built by "slave labor" and instead of doing anything of substance they just patronize.
"For your troubles, I'll name a fort after someone who kinda looks like you."
Thats the gist.
Wealthy white people feel guilty about living on "stolen land" built by "slave labor" and instead of doing anything of substance they just patronize.
"For your troubles, I'll name a fort after someone who kinda looks like you."
Thats the gist.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 11:49 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Just white guilt
Wealthy white people feel guilty about living on "stolen land" built by "slave labor" and instead of doing anything of substance they just patronize.
"For your troubles, I'll name a fort after someone who kinda looks like you."
Thats the gist.
Polk should never had the honor of having a U.S. military installation named after him in the first place.
1. He served a total of 5 months in the U.S. military.
2. He was both a terrible strategist and tactician in the Civil War.
3. He was insubordinate to many of his commanding officers.
4. His rank and positions in the CSA were owed to the fact that he was very good friend with Jefferson Davis.
Military historian Steven E. Woodworth described the shell that killed Polk as "one of the worst shots fired for the Union cause during the entire course of the war", as Polk's incompetence made him far more valuable alive than dead: "Polk's incompetence and willful disobedience had consistently hamstrung Confederate operations west of the Appalachians, while his special relationship with the president made the bishop-general untouchable."
This post was edited on 6/14/23 at 3:37 pm
Posted on 6/14/23 at 11:59 am to Jester
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And he never took up arms against the United States of America.
so let's rename the Apache helicopters and any other indian names since they took up arms against the US as well.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 12:10 pm to Jester
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Why should we have forts named after literal traitors to the USA?
Another idiot outs himself as ignorant of history.
Name anyone from the Confederacy who was prosecuted for treason.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 12:23 pm to Darth_Vader
So this black WWI private was more deserving of having a base named after him than Audie Murphy (as just one example)?
Posted on 6/14/23 at 12:24 pm to SoonerK
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Polk should never had the honor of having a U.S. military installation named after him in the first place.
You may be correct, but there are dozens of Medal of Honor winners who are more deserving that Pvt. Johnson.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 12:27 pm to chinhoyang
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You may be correct, but there are dozens of Medal of Honor winners who are more deserving that Pvt. Johnson.
off subject but do you guys know that Mansfield, La was in serious consideration as the site of the Air Force Academy?
Posted on 6/14/23 at 12:28 pm to Darth_Vader
Place sucks regardless of name
Posted on 6/14/23 at 1:01 pm to Darth_Vader
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I was stationed a Fort Polk briefly after the First Gulf War. The main thing I remember is during the summer, every day between 2-3 in the afternoon it would come a freaking deluge. Then as quick as it came, the rain was gone, the clouds were gone, and the sun, heat, and humidity were just brutal. Within minutes everything had steam coming off it, including us.
Glad you enjoyed your time in Cenla!
Posted on 6/14/23 at 1:32 pm to Boudreaux35
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Slap in the face to all who served before.
How so?
Posted on 6/14/23 at 1:33 pm to chinhoyang
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You may be correct, but there are dozens of Medal of Honor winners who are more deserving that Pvt. Johnson.
They are the wrong race.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 1:37 pm to chinhoyang
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So this black WWI private was more deserving of having a base named after him than Audie Murphy
Audie Murphy is on the list of 87 individuals that they want to rename installations after, including Roy Binavidez
Posted on 6/14/23 at 1:41 pm to chinhoyang
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but there are dozens of Medal of Honor winners who are more deserving that Pvt. Johnson.
Why?
Is there really a measurement of heroism past the point of fighting in the face of certain death while gravely injured to protect your fellow soldier and country? Does body count really matter? The courage in this to me is past a point of comparison to others who had similar actions.
This post was edited on 6/14/23 at 1:42 pm
Posted on 6/14/23 at 1:53 pm to GetCocky11
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Private Johnson continued fighting and took his Bolo knife and stabbed it through an enemy soldier's head
That Johnson gave out it's own head.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 1:57 pm to Darth_Vader
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Fort Polk officially renamed
This is an absolute disgrace and a warning as to who is running our military
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