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re: House Panel Advances Bill to Return Names of Army Bases to Biden-Era Updates
Posted on 6/7/26 at 3:29 pm to Auburn1968
Posted on 6/7/26 at 3:29 pm to Auburn1968
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No, as I recall, the names were selected as part of the effort for Southern recruits for WWI. The Civil War was still very much in living memory.
This. Does anyone bother with history any more? Southerners had been avoiding the U.S. military after the Civil War for obvious reasons. This was an effort to encourage them to join the military.
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Posted on 6/7/26 at 3:30 pm to RFK
I do not care for the Confederacy, but there was an understanding after the end of the war that those were our fellow Americans caught up in a Civil War and they would be honored as such. This isn't a game son, and it does nothing to soil the names of men fight for their people against their brothers in arms. They're in the ground and can't do anything to you, let it go.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 3:32 pm to RFK
The deflecting you say?
You started a weak assed thread tying naming to actions in Iran you wanted to bitxg about.
Weak shite real weak.
You started a weak assed thread tying naming to actions in Iran you wanted to bitxg about.
Weak shite real weak.
This post was edited on 6/7/26 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 6/7/26 at 3:42 pm to RFK
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next thing you know we’ll be changing names back. An immense waste of money.
So, it wasn't a waste of money when screaming progressives changed it under O'biden, but it is now?
Posted on 6/7/26 at 4:52 pm to RFK
This is retarded.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 5:08 pm to scrooster
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Republican Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who voted for the amendment, said his Virginia ancestor fought for the Union and would be “rolling in his grave” knowing U.S. military bases were named for Confederate leaders.
He's not running for reelection. He couldn't win. Bacon thinks he's Sherman marching to the sea. Bacon was probably the Republican who sided with Democrats to move the Bill out of Committee. Which means it's dead on arrival.
This post was edited on 6/7/26 at 5:12 pm
Posted on 6/7/26 at 5:11 pm to RFK
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RFK
You're a clown
Posted on 6/7/26 at 5:13 pm to RFK
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Trump should have had Congress codify this instead of making a unilateral change.
You do realize Trump will veto this?
Posted on 6/7/26 at 5:13 pm to Maytheporkbewithyou
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Enlistments are up enough that they're actually turning people away. I doubt any real service members give a frick about this. Only the marxists.
The only people that ever cared about changing the names of the US installations were people that would never in a million years defend this country or put on a uniform.
Why, again, should we give a single flying frick about their opinions...on anything?
Posted on 6/7/26 at 5:42 pm to Demonbengal
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On a side note, I met a guy a year ago who lives around lakeview off Touissant. He referred to it Robert E Lee. I jokingly said “don’t you mean Touissant?”. He let me have it, and said nobody refers to it by the new name or ever will.
A couple of years ago I was walking in the area of Lee circle behind some black people, one local that was showing others around, and the local called it Lee circle. I felt proud that moment that the name hasn't died
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:03 pm to RFK
I will always be Mother Rucker to me.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:09 pm to OchoDedos
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He's not running for reelection. He couldn't win. Bacon thinks he's Sherman marching to the sea. Bacon was probably the Republican who sided with Democrats to move the Bill out of Committee. Which means it's dead on arrival.
That Bacon POS was on Face the Nation this morning.
He's as bad as Thom Tillis, et al.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:10 pm to udtiger
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Good God... do you post anything that doesn't suck?
RFK hasn’t posted his boyfriend yet.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:26 pm to Rip Torner
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Shocking that you are against it,
Against what? Are you confused?
The names of those forts were used to not repel recruiting of Southern men for WWI a generation after the Civil War. It made a lot of sense.
It's not like the Southerners would have been happy to train for WWI at Fort Lincoln or Fort Sherman. That would have truly been stupid even by contemporary standards.
GROK says:
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US Army forts and camps (later often permanent posts) were primarily named after Confederate generals during World War I (and some in World War II) as a deliberate policy of regional reconciliation and political accommodation to the South.
history.army.mil
Historical Context and PolicyReconciliation era: By the time of WWI (about 50 years after the Civil War), the US sought to heal sectional divides. The Army named many new training camps in the South after prominent local Confederate figures to make the bases popular with Southern communities, politicians, and recruits. This was part of broader efforts to reintegrate the South fully into the national military and society.
latimes.com
Official Army guidelines: In 1917, policy explicitly directed naming camps housing Southern divisions after Confederate commanders (and Northern ones after Union ones). Key criteria included: the person should be from the locale, "not unpopular" locally, and the name should be short for administrative ease. Local commanders and politicians had significant input.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:31 pm to RFK
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Regardless it doesn’t make fiscal sense at this point to go back.
Thanks. But this is something I don't give two fawks about it whether it costs me money or not.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:39 pm to MontanaTiger
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No, as I recall, the names were selected as part of the effort for Southern recruits for WWI. The Civil War was still very much in living memory.
This. Does anyone bother with history any more? Southerners had been avoiding the U.S. military after the Civil War for obvious reasons. This was an effort to encourage them to join the military.
The woke fools and peevish Congress critters who wanted to change names to start with are historical ignoramuses infected with leftist ideology or are posturing fools.
This post was edited on 6/7/26 at 6:40 pm
Posted on 6/7/26 at 7:11 pm to ColoradoAg
I will always call the home of Army Aviation, Fort Rucker even though it was renamed Fort Novosel to honor Chief Warrant Officer Michael J. Novosel Sr., a Medal of Honor recipient and Army Aviation Legend. We actually call it Mother Rucker.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 7:15 pm to RFK
quote:Roland L. Bragg was from Maine
it was an obvious attempt to return to honoring The South.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 7:39 pm to OchoDedos
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Bacon thinks he's Sherman marching to the sea.
Ironically Bragg and Sherman were close friends in real life and served together. Bragg was a US military officer for 20 years and then retired years before the Civil War broke out. In particular he was a hero of the Mexican-American War and they named a new outpost fort in California after him. That fort eventually prospered into a local town that ultimately replaced the fort when the military found other resources more useful. Yes, there is a small city right in the heart of liberal northern California named Fort Bragg, CA.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:12 pm to Aubie Spr96
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Jesus Christ this admin has been such a total failure. Hey bro, how about that election integrity legislation? frick.
Cant blame the admin for that.
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