Confederate generals. It's a shame.
Those bases were named as such as a part of the healing process after the Civil war. They were Confederate generals that were good field commanders and their skills as such were duly recognized. They were skilled officers and good warriors.
Fair enough.
If you want to think for a second, to cheapen our adversaries is to cheapen the deeds of our people. Saying that Robert E. Lee was an incompetent is to say he was a pushover and detracts from hard earned victory of the Army of the Potomac. It makes the Union soldiers look like they beat up a weakling or some crippled kid or something.
We are destroying our heritage and changing our identity. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Unfortunately those of us that have learned from history are doomed to watch those that didn't learn repeat it which sucks.
Sometimes I actually tend to think that some US forts should be named after other worthy adversaries. I can see Fort Know, the armor school being named after Irwin Rommel.
After the Desert storm cease fire some Iraqi officers were taken to meet General Schwartzkoff. They were transported in an American armored vehicle. On the bulkhead some GI had taped a picture of Rommel.
A bewildered Iraqi officer asked the GI why there a picture of a former enemy on the bulkhead.
The GI replied, "Maybe if you had studied that man you wouldn't be sitting here." Good shot, soldier!
I wonder if maybe the Marine Corps ought to name something after Tadamichi Kuribayashi. He was the only general to inflict more casualties to the Marine corps then they dished out. This was at Iwo Jima.
I once ran that by a thoughtful carer Marine, a Master Gunnery Sergeant who looked at me and said he truly understood what I was saying. Then he turned his head to a group of privates andsaid to me, "Try selling it to them...or worse yet, the public."
I told him his point was duly noted.
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