Wish they would change Camp Lejuene so those greedy lawyers would have to change their commercials. I suggest Camp Puller. No marine would object to that.

No Marine objects to LT General John A LeJeune either.....

(But the commercials are annoying)

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Originally posted by downtownv:
What will they re-name Fort Dix?

Ft Chode

Feel good bullshit. That's all this is.

I'd wager that there aren't but a handful of AD soldiers (if that) who even know who Hood or Benning were, much less care.

It's all just leftist emotion and it's going to piss them off even more when people continue to refer to them as their legitimate name.

They pulled that crap around here awhile back, officially renaming any geographical area with the name squaw (Squaw Peak, Squaw Meadows, Squaw Creek, etc...), because, you know, it's offensive to Indians or something. Folks still refer to them as Squaw whatever and will continue to do so...even the Injuns.

Lest anyone forgets, it was Nikki Haley who started all this crap by removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina capitol grounds - then the statues.

And the War of Northern Aggression continues.

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What or who is Cavazos?

I suppose the nickname could Fort Cervaza, or Fort Caldo de Res or Fort Carne Asado.

Who was General Cavazos

There are few individuals who are the right person, in the right place, and at the right time. General Richard E. Cavazos was one of those people. From growing up on a cattle ranch, sustaining a career-ending football injury in college, and facing enemy forces in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars, Cavazos was able to learn from his life experiences and use them to become one of the Army’s finest Soldiers. He served as the first four-star general of Hispanic descent in Army history. Cavazos’s actions, guidance, and loyalty to the Soldiers he served with led retired Lt. Gen. Daniel P. Bolger to declare him the epitome of “Army done right.”

There goes the new weapons budget to pay for the changes of all those signs and letterhead...

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
Who was General Cavazos

There are few individuals who are the right person, in the right place, and at the right time. General Richard E. Cavazos was one of those people. From growing up on a cattle ranch, sustaining a career-ending football injury in college, and facing enemy forces in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars, Cavazos was able to learn from his life experiences and use them to become one of the Army’s finest Soldiers. He served as the first four-star general of Hispanic descent in Army history. Cavazos’s actions, guidance, and loyalty to the Soldiers he served with led retired Lt. Gen. Daniel P. Bolger to declare him the epitome of “Army done right.”

He spoke at my advanced course graduation. The general was a hoot and a half; had the entire auditorium laughing. Great speaker and impressive person.

The university I work at has a building named after Margaret Sanger. And they're changing the name. I find it funny on several fronts. On one hand, it was likely a large portion of the population would have objected to her and the naming of the building after her back in the 60's. Hero of the left, they couldn't have cared less about those objections if they'd bothered to ask.

In more recent decades, as more and more people became aware of her other views, I think they started to become embarrassed and wanted to cover their historical tracks, as has become the norm for the Left/Democrats in modern times.

Personally I always wondered how/why they named it after her in the first places, but I strongly objected to the renaming and more revisionist history, or the "canceling" of history.

A university, an institution of learning... supposedly, passing up a chance to educate. Shocker. They should have left it alone, and put up a plaque in the lobby, explaining the whole thing. Why they originally named it after her, but how other information came our later people's opinions on that choice changed. Talk about how people and society's view can change through historical eras, how things that were missed, over looked or accepted in one period of time, can be view as mistakes or even reprehensible to future generations. Such an opportunity to educate about the importance of history and how it's interpreted.

Nah... erase, erase, pretend it didn't happen.


(as a side note, I was willing to bet guys at work large sums of money that they were going to rename it after Ruth Ginsburg, but shockingly and thankfully they did not)

Is the pattern that the old names are generally in the states that broke off in 1861 and were named for locals?

In any event, I don't see that the USG needs to 'virtue signal' by making any name changes.

If I headed the commission and had to scrutinize those nine base names, I see three that stand out as maybe being worth re-evaluating.

Bragg, honestly, was not that great a general. I've read dozens of books on the conflict, and never in any of those did the names of General Rucker or General Benning show up.

I could get behind a Fort Patton, a Fort Washington, and a Fort (George) Thomas - there's a great unsung leader of the winning side of the same conflict the nine were on the losing side of.

So that'd have been my input, were I to have found myself in the 'naming commission' and forced to direct 8 digits of the Federal budget to virtue signaling.

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Originally posted by joel9507:
Bragg, honestly, was not that great a general.

And he wasn’t the only example that could be cited. Some time ago I remarked to a friend who had been stationed at Fort Bragg that I wondered if some of the Confederates chosen to be commemorated with having forts named for them weren’t picked as a subtle way of continuing to poke the South in the eye: “Yeah, not only did we beat you, but we’ll keep reminding posterity of that by naming some of the reasons why.”

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Originally posted by joel9507:

In any event, I don't see that the USG needs to 'virtue signal' by making any name changes.

Especially considering the state of public education in this country, you could put a gun to most people's heads and they couldn't tell you who those places were named after. I'll admit it myself, someone fairly educated on history, military history, couldn't tell you who the majority of them were.

This is a case of "You're offended and you didn't even know it, it's a good thing we told you."