For those keeping score as the Army wastes $62 million to "cleanse" Fort names (and other facilities, no doubt) that no one ever cared about one way or the other until fringe-leftists started sniveling, here's the list of names changed so far because, you know, changing names changes history.
From the FWIW file, these posts had these names for the entirety of my life. I will refer to them by how I knew them and in many instances, served in them, until I leave this mortal coil.
Besides wasting tens of millions of dollars and making leftists situationally feel better, this blacklashing of history changes nothing. (Hat tip to Van Jones, noted communist and former aid to Barack Obama, who referred to Trump's election as a "whitelash" on election night.)
Renaming posts, particularly after people we've mostly never heard of, accomplishes what, exactly? Solves what, precisely?
Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia renamed Fort Walker for Dr. Mary Walker
Fort Bragg, North Carolina renamed Fort Liberty for the American value of liberty
Fort Benning, Georgia renamed Fort Moore for Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and his wife, Julia
Fort Gordon, Georgia renamed Fort Eisenhower for General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fort Hood Texas reamed Fort Cavazos for Gen. Richard E. Cavazos
Fort Lee, Virginia renamed Fort Gregg-Adams for Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams
Fort Pickett, Virginia renamed Fort Barfoot for Tech. Sgt. Van Barfoot
Fort Polk, Louisiana renamed Fort Johnson for Sgt. William Henry Johnson.
Fort Rucker, Alabama renamed Fort Novosel for CW4 Michael J. Novosel Sr.
The reality is that if the Administration is butthurt over the naming of these posts, then can simply do what King County, WA did when they were renamed (And most reading this have zero idea King County was renamed.)
But it was.
King County was initially named after Vice President Rufus de Vane King back in the 1852.
In 1986, the county council renamed King County after MLK. A reasonable upgrade and in keeping with the times.
The renaming, however, had to be formalized by the state legislature, which took place in 2005.
In all that time, few knew or remembered that the county had been renamed, and the replacement of the county logo was phased in over the next 5 years at very little cost.
This same technique COULD have been used by those so hot to endorse the woke idea of changing the names of these posts. Others with the same name could have been used in the place of those these forts were named after.
For example, yes, Ft. Bragg was named after a Confederate general (Braxton Bragg). But instead of renaming it to someone else that made it difficult to recall with names not heard of in conjunction with post names (Bragg was changed named to "Liberty?" Why?) it simply COULD have been named after the confederates cousin, Union General Edward Bragg.
But for reasons that make zero sense that was not to be.
