California's Fort Bragg, Army Posts, Statues, Asheville, Dolly and Lee

JUNE 17, 2020

**  Newsom supports renaming North Coast's Fort Bragg, named after Confederate general.  (California.  Newsom is the governor.)

**  Why were 10 Army posts named after Confederate generals?  (If you want to know why, here is where to find out.)

**  Statue of Confederate soldier removed from Houston park.  (Texas)

**  Crew begins work to remove Confederate statue.  (Texas)

**  America wants to rename Army bases named for Confederate leaders.  here's how to get it right.  (Renaming not only bases named after Confederates but others such as Fort Carson and Fort Leavenworth.)

**  Officials vote to remove Confederate monuments in Asheville.

**  Birdville ISD to meet Friday, consider removal of Richland High Confederate symbols.

**  Confederate symbols are coming down.  Should Dolly Parton go up instead?

**  Calls grow to remove Lee statue in US Capitol.

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack: Now the Clergy Jumps Aboard, Leesburg Va., Naval Academy, Dolly Parton, Mobile and More School Names

JUNE 17, 2020

**  Loudon clergy and faith leaders group calls for Leesburg's Confederate statue's removal.  (Surprisingly, a photo taken on May 31 did not show any hate crimes sprayed on it.  I guess next they should call for the town's name to be changed.  After all, LEE!!!

**  Loyola Blakefield, McDonough facing calls  to change names,  sever ties with racist past.  (US Naval Academy)

**  Petitions call for  all Tennessee Confederate monuments  to be replaced with statues of Dolly Parton.  (Wait a minute, isn't she a white person?  The monuments would have to be replaced with ones for black people.)

**  Who is the rightful owner of the Mobile  statue?

**  Who are Alexandria public schools named after?  (Three are in line to have names changed:  Robert E. Lee High School, T.C. Williams High School who opposed desegregation, and Matthew Maury Elementary School.  As I have said before, I am for renaming any school that has a majority of black students.)

--Old Secesh

U.S. Army Bases, Silent Sam, Florida and Virginia

December 23, 2019

**  Fact:  10 U.S. military bases named after Confederate generals.  (Guess what they want done with those names?)

**  12/22 Letters:  UNC Board's Silent Sam deal was another strike at campus 'liberals.'

December 24, 2019

**  Lake County remains divided on Confederate general statue.  (Florida   Gen. Kirby Smith)

**  Why Virginia must amend its laws protecting Confederate statues.

**  Virginia plots a course worth following on Confederate statues.

**  Some residents want to rid Orlando school of Confederate general's moniker.

**  Virginia lawmakers ask governor to remove state's Robert E. Lee  statue from US Capitol.  (One is White, One is Black.)

**  Dolly Parton may replace a Confederate general.

**  North Carolina judge blocks students in Silent Sam  preservation decision with Confederate group.

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Why Those Confederate Statues Still Standing and Dolly?

December 17, 2019

**  93 % of Confederate monuments are still standing.  Here's why.

**  Iowa home with Confederate, Nazi displays vandalized.

**  Committee explains deal to relocate Confederate monument.

**  Theft of Confederate flags from cemetery remains a mystery.

**  Group protests  Nazi, Confederate display in Des Moines yard.  (I did see that the wood with the German war symbol was not a swastika.)

**  Will a Dolly Parton statue replace a Confederate memorial in Tennessee's Capitol?

**  NC lawyer sues Confederate group over UNC letter takedown.

Not quite sure what this last one is about.

--Old Secesh