Posted on Sep 8, 2021
SSG Carlos Madden
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Doesn't matter if you agree with this move or not - it's been directed and it's happening. What are your suggestions for renaming the following bases?

- Fort Bragg
- Fort Rucker
- Fort Benning
- Fort Gordon
- Fort Hood
- Fort Polk
- Fort A.P. Hill
- Fort Belvoir
- Fort Lee
- Fort Pickett
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CPT James Burkholder
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Fort Opra, Fort Pelosi, Fort Ocosta, Fort Obama and Biden, I can go on and on. . . [SARC]
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PO1 Don Uhrig
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OMG - I see this going to the far left with bases named after LGBT historical heros. Now, before anyone accuses me of being homophobic, I will proudly out myself as a gay combat veteran who is also a gun totin' log cabin republican - and who has a great sense of humor. History should not be overwritten. It must stand and be studied so that hopefully we can grow toward peace.
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Cpl Paul Shanaman
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Leave it alone. It hasn't been a problem for decades. Now all of a sudden it's a problem because of woke mobs and weak military leadership caving to demands?

Leave the military alone. We have one job to fight and win wars.
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CPL LeChonne Wright
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Name them for Black/African Americans who died in pursuit of justice and equality. Tubman, King, etc. Also, I think one should be named after Colin Powell,
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SSG Supply Sergeant
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Leave our history and heritage alone. If the names offend you research the history and see if you are offended by true actions or peer pressure. We are supposed to be adults who swore an oath to protect and defend this nation against ALL enemies foreign and DOMESTIC. Don't destroy our past, our heritage because of the whimpers of a few. Learn from their mistakes and achievements. They were, are Americans. Do we really want to rename Ft Bragg to Ft Rainbow or Ft Unicorn so the offended can have warm fuzzy feelings and our enemies can laugh. Think about it.
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[With all due respect sir, I served my country for over 30 years in active, guard and reserve and as for your comment and opinion I think you know where you can put it.181432:Lt Col (Verify To See)]
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Lt Col (Join to see) - So we're to ignore that fact that President Johnson pardoned each and everyone of them as well as Jefferson Davis for the specific act of treason and fully restored their rights as US citizens?
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SSgt James Harvey just because they were pardoned doesn't mean we need to revere these people.

Maybe FT. Chelsea Manning is in order?
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CPT Jay Ward
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Lt Col (Join to see) - Most of those generals, if not all, were in US Army prior to War between the States. Lincoln had hoped for reconciliation after the war. Sadly that was not carried out but rather "reconstruction".
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SFC Steve Ouellette
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Fort snowflakitis. Funny now even the armed forces are succumbing to the "woke" cancel culture crowd....
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SPC Lyle Montgomery
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I think that this renaming is crap. Why are cow towing to a few? I'm not a southerner, but history is a fact. We should not change history for a few crybabys. Leave History alone and get over it. It is what it is.
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I wonder how many British installations are named for Washington, Lafayette, DeGrasse...
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CPO Jack De Merit
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I would suggest that they be left alone. These people are part of history. Naming places or things after them does not mean that you are honoring them. It means that you should not forget them and what they did. Most of them made enormous contributions to this country during its birth. That should be why we named things after them.
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Lt Col Timothy Cassidy-Curtis
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I would like to make one note on all of this. President Lincoln was very clear on his intentions regarding post-war activities. In concluding his second inaugural address, he said "With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." Lincoln would have been adamant in the fair treatment of all soldiers who formerly were in combat with each other. He wanted one country, not two, with one being "punished" for its past crimes. Lincoln was a unifier, and it was the intent of Booth to destroy this unity. Andrew Johnson did what he could, but Johnson lacked Lincoln's skills.

While the principles for which the Confederate Generals fought were certainly questionable, I believe that it would have been Lincoln's wish that they, too, be honored for the dedication they showed to their duties. Lincoln would have wanted to welcome them back as fellow Americans, with malice towards none of them.

I think we might be forgetting that. Again, this is no justification for the principles they wanted to defend. It is, however, in recognition of the principles that President Abraham Lincoln would have. When people tear down Lincoln's statue, I would like to remember the greatness he represented.

Our great and almighty God forgives us, not because we merit forgiveness (we don't) but, out of God's overwhelming love for us, He allows Himself to be moved to forgiveness, and He invites us all to do the same. President Lincoln followed God's path of forgiveness, and it is a good model for us all.
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SGT Richard Domenden
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Keep the names as they are. Stop giving in to these snowflakes
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