OctвЂ‰24 My Dress-Up Darling Anime's Video Unveils Cast, January Debut.OctвЂ‰24 CloverWorks Animates Video for Gran Saga Smartphone RPG With Radwimps Song.OctвЂ‰24 Streaming Premiere of Lupin III Part 1 Anime's English Dub Delayed.00:14 Chibi Maruko-chan Manga Gets Its 1st Stage Play in Winter 2022.If so, itвЂ™s not very funny in retrospect. вЂњDid someone in Washington have a sense of humor?вЂќ Gallagher, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Virginia. Bragg, Polk and Hood, for example, вЂњwere widely deemed failures both during and after the war,вЂќ says Gary W. position, then as now, should be unambiguous: We reject it, and we will not honor those who led the fight to keep it alive.ДЄs it turns out, several of the Confederate officers in question were not highly respected military leaders. Lee was a great Christian gentleman is all well and good, but when you name an army installation after him, youвЂ™re celebrating him as a military man, which is to say, as a traitorous general who fought for slavery, AmericaвЂ™s single greatest moral failure. Frost tried to obscure the obvious by saying that the installations had been named for вЂњindividuals, not causes or ideologies.вЂќ Furthermore, he said, вЂњThe naming occurred in the spirit of reconciliation, not division.вЂќД«ut reconciliation can only go so far otherwise, why did we fight the war in the first place?ДЄnd individuals are difficult to separate from their ideologies. вЂњTo the extent the military sympathized with or celebrated the Confederacy, it helped encourage the white nationalism weвЂ™re running up against today,вЂќ Sturkey said. Lee вЂњone of our greatest American Christians and one of our greatest American gentlemen.вЂќ) According to Nina Silber, history professor at Boston University, the Roosevelt administration named them after Confederate officers to court Southern votes and secure the support of Southern Democrats for the war. entered World War II, it again needed bases thatвЂ™s when Fts. secretary of War accepted the recommendation of the local chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Rotary Club. Benning in Georgia, for instance, was named after Confederate Gen. In an effort to build local goodwill, it allowed base names to be selected by small-town government officials, businesspeople and, in some cases, by the local chambers of commerce.ДЇt. William Sturkey, a history professor at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, says the military left much of the decision-making to the local - and, of course, entirely white - authorities. The film вЂњBirth of a Nation,вЂќ a virulently racist glorification of Ku Klux Klan vigilantes, was released in 1915. Statues and memorials to Confederate leaders were being erected. Take the names of traitor generals off Army posts and replace them with these 10 honorable soldiers.ДЄt that time, nostalgia for the вЂњLost CauseвЂќ glories of the antebellum South was at its height. Op-Ed: Rename the Army posts - these 10 soldiers deserve the honor A congressionally appointed commission is now overseeing the renaming process and must report back by October 2022. When President Trump vetoed the legislation (of course he did!), his veto was overridden. Plenty of people have rightly demanded that those names be removed - and last year, Congress voted to do so. Hill and Gordon, dotted across the American South. Beauregard, Benning, Lee, Pickett, Rucker, A.P. Bragg in North Carolina, named after Braxton Bragg, an irascible Confederate general. Yet thatвЂ™s exactly what the United States did. So isnвЂ™t it kind of off-message, to say the least, to name military posts after the rebel officers who fought for the losing side? The last I checked, the Confederate army lost the Civil War. How did the United States come to have nearly a dozen military installations named not after its heroes but after its enemies - men who led a war against the country and killed tens of thousands of people in defense of the indefensible institution of slavery?

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