Confederate-named forts.

[Desert Kid]

What is "this" and how is it rewriting history?

Changing names of forts named after "traitors" because it's "offensive".

 

[Scotsman]

Changing names of forts named after "traitors" because it's "offensive".

Changing the current name of a place or facility is not rewriting history. It is a current event involving modern interpretations of historical people and issues.

 

[CSA Today]

Changing names of forts named after "traitors" because it's "offensive".

The next logical step would be to ban Southern soldiers at military installations lest their presence invoke unpleasant memories and offend someone.

"To the Confederate soldiers of Scotland County, the record of whose sublime self-sacrifice and undying devotion to duty in the service of their country is a fond heritage of a loyal posterity".
Inscribed on the front of the Confederate soldier's monument in Laurinburg, North Carolina.

 

[ole]

Some people have much to little to do.

 

[Scotsman]

Changing names of forts named after "traitors" because it's "offensive".

Actually, I want to respond to another element of the above comment, which gets at the heart of this thread. Despite the criticism and dismissal of the opinion writer who suggested changing military fort names, does anyone here actually believe that the name of facility, military base, or installation, carries little meaning? For instance, if someone suggested that the U.S. government name a military post "Fort Nidal Hasan," would everyone here find that acceptable?

Probably not, and that is precisely because most people today object to the U.S. military honoring an individual who turned against his country and killed his fellow (or former) service members.

So, why is it different with Confederate heroes? The difference has little to do with the details of the treasonous acts and more to do with the willingness of some Americans to forgive, or in fact celebrate, those treasonous acts.

 

[Samuel.Sohm]

Can't you just imagine scads of soldiers wandering around trying to figure out where they're supposed to go? Fort Anonymous....Fort Can't-Speak-The-Name......

Fort Pope....where Fort Pope Sergeant?

 

[Samuel.Sohm]

The next logical step would be to ban Southern soldiers at military installations lest their presence invoke unpleasant memories and offend someone.

"To the Confederate soldiers of Scotland County, the record of whose sublime self-sacrifice and undying devotion to duty in the service of their country is a fond heritage of a loyal posterity".
Inscribed on the front of the Confederate soldier's monument in Laurinburg, North Carolina.

That's a big step, but chaging the names of Federal Installations is as well. Neither will happen because we are reasonable people. I did have a roommate at Fort Stewart (my first trip to the real south) who was a "good ol' boay" from "ol' sou caroliner," and at that point I was still talking with my minnesota accent. Lots of interesting and confusing conversations. Maybe we do need to be seperated.......

 

[diane]

That's a big step, but chaging the names of Federal Installations is as well. Neither will happen because we are reasonable people. I did have a roommate at Fort Stewart (my first trip to the real south) who was a "good ol' boay" from "ol' sou caroliner," and at that point I was still talking with my minnesota accent. Lots of interesting and confusing conversations. Maybe we do need to be seperated.......

Lol! Try being a Westerner and an Indian at that, learning English in South Carolina!

 

[Samuel.Sohm]

Lol! Try being a Westerner and an Indian at that, learning English in South Carolina!

I am assuming it was far worse than my experience LOL

 

[jay gale]

It's one of the major marks of Marxists to want to control the flow of information to the public, and one way they do it is to rewrite history. History has always been in the hands of persons with a political agenda, but it seems like it's getting harder to uncover the real truth, unless you want to do a lot of digging yourself and learn to be a critical thinker. I know of no one on the Left who fits either criterion.

Well said, it just shows the shallowness of their agenda that this is what they choose to address rather than build on the legacy of Lincoln and the 13th Amendment. There are new slave masters today, they are the ones doling out the pittances to the dependancy class they have enslaved over the last 70 years.

(to the Generals here, my apologies if I delved into modern politics with that remark)

 

[CSA Today]

Lol! Try being a Westerner and an Indian at that, learning English in South Carolina!

Or vice versa.

"Beloved, the South might not always be right, but we ain't never
wrong!"
Brother Dave Gardner

 

[diane]

Or vice versa.

"Beloved, the South might not always be right, but we ain't never
wrong!"
Brother Dave Gardner

Oh, that is so true! Many of the old regional accents are getting scarce, too. Not too many talk like my granny and uncle did.

 

[CSA Today]

Oh, that is so true! Many of the old regional accents are getting scarce, too. Not too many talk like my granny and uncle did.

I have two Lumbee friends (in their mid 40s) who grew up in the same neighborhood, went to the same school, were best friends from an early age, yet one speaks with the old Lumbee accent while the other one speaks like an area Southern white.

Deo Vindice

 

[diane]

I have two Lumbee friends (in their mid 40s) who grew up in the same neighborhood, went to the same school, were best friends from an early age, yet one speaks with the old Lumbee accent while the other one speaks like an area Southern white.

Deo Vindice

I'm missing a lot of that old talk here, too. When I'm teaching the languages to the kids, sometimes I have to grit my teeth - it sounds so harsh! That's because they never heard it around home. But the old folks spoke English that same way.