Who should the forts and bases be renamed for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I support renaming military bases and forts that are named after Confederates and slaveholders. I know little about military history. What are the top suggestions?

People who were not traitors.

Is there a Benedict Arnold base?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We have plenty of medal of honor winners who aren’t traitors. Pick one of them.

Until someone discovers an old photo of them in blackface or that they made an off color joke once way back when...then the names gotta be changed again. You’re never going to find a perfect person with zero flaws - but that seems to be what people want.

You are setting a low bar if we can’t exclude people who engaged in racism. Plenty of flaws left to forgive if we exclude racists.

[Anonymous]

I'd suggest Sam Johnson. He just died, he was a survivor of the worst POW camps, and he was super conservative when he later served in Congress so it would be hard for Republicans to oppose him. I didn't agree with him politically at all but he had distinguished military service and his personal life seemed pretty clean.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Sorry to see this not being taken seriously.

I was thinking Navajo Code Talkers, Tuskegee Airmen, heroes of that statute. But as I said I don't know military history.

[Anonymous]

Why can't they just be named after their geographical locations? I mean, I'm sure someone will argue that the name of the location is problematic (i.e. Oklahoma) but it's probably the safest move these days.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We have plenty of medal of honor winners who aren’t traitors. Pick one of them.

This. There are plenty valiant and courageous men and women in the military past and present. We shouldn't name things after generals that we're racists and lost a war. Seriously. .

If a person is chosen, they better run a background check first. Otherwise we'll be right back here in a year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have DC Comics and Marvel bid against each other. The highest bidder wins naming rights.

I actually like this one. A great way to get some funding.

Don’t make jokes about our service people who have their lives for us

Bean counting public company executives are heroes too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have plenty of medal of honor winners who aren’t traitors. Pick one of them.

This. There are plenty valiant and courageous men and women in the military past and present. We shouldn't name things after generals that we're racists and lost a war. Seriously. .

If a person is chosen, they better run a background check first. Otherwise we'll be right back here in a year.

I'd rather not have any forts or bases named after a real person. People are flawed, that's a fact. We might find something unacceptable about the person in the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I support renaming military bases and forts that are named after Confederates and slaveholders. I know little about military history. What are the top suggestions?

People who were not traitors.

Is there a Benedict Arnold base?

There was, but it was renamed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Clinton_(West_Point)

[Anonymous]

I don't think you can do it after a person.

Very few people regardless of face, ethnicity, etc are completely free of offending someone.

[Anonymous]

Everything should just be given numbers so we don't need to rename things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can't they just be named after their geographical locations? I mean, I'm sure someone will argue that the name of the location is problematic (i.e. Oklahoma) but it's probably the safest move these days.

I can't figure out why they don't do this. Forts used to be named for local geography, or for abstract ideas: Fort Necessity, Fort Ticonderoga, Fort Defiance, Fort Lapwai, etc.

Alternatively, pick from the many non-white Medal of Honor winners. Do a little research to make sure that they don't have any skeletons in their closet. Maybe some members of the 442nd Infantry, the most decorated unit of its size in military history, almost entirely composed of second-generation Japanese-Americans who fought for this country while their families were in internment camps. (Fort Inouye has a nice ring to it.) Or one of the seven African-American WWII soldiers who were awarded their Medals posthumously, after a later investigation revealed that discrimination caused them to be overlooked at the time. Or the Native Americans and Puerto Ricans and Filipinos and immigrants who fought for this country despite facing official and unofficial discrimination at its hands. There are plenty of people. Or choose one of the Navajo code-talkers or Tuskegee Airmen or even Mary Walker, the only female Medal of Honor winner (she was a Civil War nurse who was captured and held as a POW).

[Anonymous]

Excellent military officers who were not Confederates.

There are even more of them now than there were then! And some of them are even black or other minorities, or women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I support renaming military bases and forts that are named after Confederates and slaveholders. I know little about military history. What are the top suggestions?

People who were not traitors.

Is there a Benedict Arnold base?

There was, but it was renamed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Clinton_(West_Point)

Interesting. It was named for Arnold BEFORE his treason and they quickly renamed it. The installations honoring Confederates were named AFTER their treachery. Very interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everything should just be given numbers so we don't need to rename things.

Just make sure we skip 420 and 666.