It seems that Congress has passed the Defense Authorization Act with veto-prof majorities. One of the sections in the bill sets up a commission to sturdy the renaming of bases named after Confederate generals.
Of course, Fort Polk has been the Joint Readiness Training Center since the early '90s, when the 5th Infantry division was inactivated. We've called that acreage JRTC ever since, but the sign out front still says Fort Polk.
We always wondered why Polk was named after an Episcopal Bishop. He was a Confederate General, but he got himself shot while scouting the Federal position near Pine Mountain, outside of Marietta , GA. As the story is told, Polk was scouting the Union positions when a Union general happened to notice his group. He asked an artillery officer to "drive those people away". The artillery officer aimed a Parrot Rifle (a 3" artillery piece) and fired it. The shell hit Polk in the chest, went through him, and exploded on tree behind him. It proved fatal to Polk, nearly cutting him in half. There is no record of the reaction of his horse.
At any rate, we expect that several Army posts will be renamed next year. Along with Fort Bragg, Jackson, Lee, Benning, Hood, and a host of others.
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I'm waiting for progressives to realize that there are more recent examples of actual racists. These are the Democratic politicians that signed the Southern Manifesto. The Southern Manifesto was the racist response to the Supreme Court decision on Brown v Board of Education. They all have infrastructure named after them.
My bestus cousin Larry studied history for 12+ years at Ohio State . Never had a full time job and eschewed work in any form. He was in the MENSA Club . IQ off the charts . His major was history . He could talk for hours about Americas heros and all the grand statues we have erected to them . He predicted before his death that we would be tearing down our statues before long . That was 17 years ago . He said the totalitarians always destroy history and the winner gets to rewrite it . He knew the commies were coming . Although I am not highly educated even still I can see the threat to our freedom if we don't stand up for the people that made America great before our time .
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