Obama Admin Turned Down Renaming of Army Bases: 'Reconciliation, Not Division'

[mystery-ak]

 breitbart.com
Obama Admin Turned Down Renaming of Army Bases: 'Reconciliation, Not Division'
Joel B. Pollak


The U.S. Army under President Barack Obama turned down the suggestion in 2015 of renaming military bases that had been named for Confederate generals.

The idea emerged in the wake of the mass shooting at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in which a white supremacist murdered nine black parishioners. In the aftermath, the state government removed the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the state capitol, noting its history as a symbol of division.

However, the Obama administration rejected the idea of renaming military bases named for Confederate bases, noting that many of the names had been adopted as symbols of reconciliation between North and South after the brutal Civil War.

As the Los Angeles Times reported at the time:

    The Army’s top spokesman, Brig. Gen. Malcolm B. Frost, issued a brief statement in the aftermath of questions about whether the military ought to consider changing the name of bases like Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which is named after the man who led the Confederate Army of Tennessee, Gen. Braxton Bragg.

    “Every Army installation is named for a soldier who holds a place in our military history,” Frost said. “Accordingly, these historic names represent individuals, not causes or ideologies. It should be noted that the naming occurred in the spirit of reconciliation, not division.”

President Obama chose Fort Bragg as the site for an address welcoming U.S. troops home from their mission in Iraq in 2011.

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[GrouchoTex]

I never thought I'd say this but it was bound to happen one day...........

The Obama administration was RIGHT!

This is the way I learned this as well.
An olive branch between north and south to honor soldiers from both sides, not a statement about race.

I really don't care if they rename them or not. TBH.
Cape Canaveral became Cape Kennedy and back to Cape Canaveral again.
No one seemed to notice.

[skeeter]

Why doesn't anyone refute these stupid revisionist demands by using Lincoln's own words in his second inaugural address, with the US on the verge of victory over the Confederacy:

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 a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

Here the left is today, no longer contain their outrage at an enemy defeated, and restored as countrymen, 150 years ago.