Civil War II: Getting Near to Base Name Decision, School and Virginia Again

JULY 24, 2020


**  Trump, GOP ally vow Confederate base names won't change.

**  Decency demands renaming Fort Bragg, other military sites named for Confederates.

**  Virginia evicts Confederate monuments from its state Capitol.  (The Sad Gov. strikes again.)

**  Richland High drops Confederate-related themes, becomes the Royals.  (Texas)

**  Trump says top senator will not allow removal of Confederate base names.

**  Senate passes bill to remove Confederate names from Army bases  in defiance of Trump.  They voted 86-14 to do this.  The House voted 295-125.  Evidently, a lot of Republican senators crossed over to the Democrats.

This means that a Trump veto could be overridden if the votes stay that way.

**  Senators Portman and Brown support changing military bases named after Confederate soldiers, Trump says no to change.  (Ohio senators)

Again, I support base-name changes since they did fight against the United States.  Sadly, I am sure everyone of the bases will be named after black soldiers.  They may be deserving, but because this wound is so deep and recent to so many, I would like the name changes to Blacks to be in around ten years (except for Colin Powell).  In the meantime, they could be named after other Union, World War I and World War II soldiers.

I also think that those people who really support the name changes should put their money where their mouths are and pay for it.  No money should come from public funds.

--Old Secesh