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American Military News by Bill Atkinson January 10, 2021
Veto override means Fort Lee will get a new name. Here is the process involved in getting there
With Congress’ override of the president’s veto of the $741 billion defense budget bill also comes the news that soon, a new name will be assigned to Fort Lee.
What is the process for that? Actually, it’s not going to be quickly done because the language in the legislation calls for the renaming to take place over a three-year period. A special commission will oversee all of the procedure, from soliciting and vetting names to making the final recommendations.
The price tag for the work is around $2 million.
Despite President Donald Trump’s threat to veto it because of the renaming provision, both houses of Congress passed the bill by veto-proof margins. That meant that if Trump carried through with his threat to veto — which he did last month — both the Senate and House would have more than enough of the two-thirds majority constitutionally required to override it — which both did.
The president’s veto was based in part on the language that asked for new names for 10 Army posts in the South whose current names honor Confederate generals. Three of those posts are in Virginia: Fort Lee, Fort A.P. Hill in Caroline County and Fort Pickett in Nottoway County.
More: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/01/veto-override-means-fort-lee-will-get-a-new-name-here-is-the-process-involved-in-getting-there/ (https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/01/veto-override-means-fort-lee-will-get-a-new-name-here-is-the-process-involved-in-getting-there/)
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The smart thing for the DD to do is to simply rename Fort Lee after Robert's father, Richard Light-horse Harry Lee, a Revolutionary war hero.
That would be a good slap in the face of the wokesters as there would be no name change.
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Pentagon Begins Process to Purge Confederate Names from Military Bases, Property
8 Jan 2021
Military.com | By Matthew Cox
The Pentagon is moving forward to satisfy a congressional directive in the 2021 defense policy bill that will result in the renaming of at least 10 Army bases and possibly two Navy ships that honor the Confederacy.
On Friday, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher C. Miller appointed four members of what will eventually be an eight-member congressionally mandated panel: the lengthily named Commission on the Naming of Items of the Department of Defense that Commemorate the Confederate States of America or Any Person Who Served Voluntarily with the Confederate States of America.
Those members include Sean McLean, a White House associate director from California; Joshua Whitehouse, a former Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives who now serves as a White House liaison to the Defense Department; Ann Johnston, acting assistant secretary of defense for Legislative Affairs, from North Carolina; and Earl Matthews, principal deputy general counsel for the Army and a colonel in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/08/pentagon-begins-process-purge-confederate-names-military-bases-property.html (https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/08/pentagon-begins-process-purge-confederate-names-military-bases-property.html)
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The smart thing for the DD to do is to simply rename Fort Lee after Robert's father, Richard Light-horse Harry Lee, a Revolutionary war hero.
That would be a good slap in the face of the wokesters as there would be no name change.
Exactly!
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The smart thing for the DD to do is to simply rename Fort Lee after Robert's father, Richard Light-horse Harry Lee, a Revolutionary war hero.
That would be a good slap in the face of the wokesters as there would be no name change.
Excellent idea.
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I believe they will name it after someone who has, historically shown their respect to the military. Someone whose very name stirs patriotic feelings and American pride. One of two comes to mind: Ft. Maxine Waters or Ft. Nazi Pelosi! :laughingdog: