List of Renamed Bases-- Part 7: Fort Polk Becomes Fort Johnson, Fort Rucker becomes Fort Novolsel

The new names of the last two of the eight on the list:

Fort Polk, Louisiana, will become Fort Johnson after Army Sergeant William Henry Johnson, who received the Medal of Honor posthumously for action in the Argonne Forest in France during World War I.  A black man.

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Fort Rucker, Alabama, will become Fort Novosel, after Army Chief Warrant Officer 4 Michael  J. Novosel, a helicopter pilot who received the Medal of Honor for a medevac mission under fire in Vietnam while under fire where he  saved 29 soldiers.

--Old Secesh

List of Renamed Bases-- Part 6: Fort Hood becomes Fort Cavazos, Fort Pickett Becomes Fort Barfoot

Fort Hood, Texas, becomes Fort Cavazos, named for  Army General Richard E. Cavazos, who received the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism during the Vietnam War.

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Fort Pickett, Virginia, becomes Fort Barfoot, in honorof Army  Tech Sgt.  Van T. Barfoot, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions with the 45th Infantry Division during World War II in Italy.

He was a Choctaw Indian.

--Old Secesh

Here Is the List of Army Bases to be Renamed-- Part 2: Fort Benning Becomes Fort Moore

This has been the topic of many articles in the last month as the military starts renaming them.  I do not list these unless more information is given than what I have already written.  That is why I haven't been writing a lot lately in this blog.  (And believe me, I sure will be happy if the day ever comes that I can completely drop this blog.  I have too many blogs as it is and this one is no fun to write.)

All of the  people the bases are renamed for are deserving.  The commission that chose the names did a good job.

RENAMED BASES:

FORT BENNING, Georgia, will become FORT MOORE, after Army Lt. Gen.  Hal Moore and his wife, Julia Compton Moore. Hal Moore  received the Distinguished Service cross for his heroism in the Vietnam War.  Julia Moore advocated for military families and is credited for the personal notification of death procedures now practiced.

--Old Secesh

Fort Hamilton in NYC, Fort Liberty and Killeen

JANUARY 5, 2023

**  NYC fort renames street for Vietnam War  Infantryman.  (Fort Hamilton renamed Robert E. Lee Avenue for 1st Lt. John Warren.  A Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in Vietnam.  A deserving person, but also a black person.  Why do so many renamed things have to be of black people?)

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JANUARY 6, 2023

**  Get ready for Fort Liberty:  The Pentagon begins changing Confederate base names.  (Fort Bragg.  I'm kind of surprised is wasn't renamed Fort BLM.)

**  Possibility of renaming Killeen's Fort Hood Street evokes mixed opinions and high emotions.

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Renaming Those Streets, Referendum? Islamic Involvement, Renaming

MAY 16, 2022

** A civil war among neighbors over Confederate-themed streets.  (Fairfax, Virginia)

**  'Just absurd':  Virginia teen  who passed out at party before racial slurs were drawn on him.  Virginia.  A 16-year-old black student was at a party with his white friends and passed out.  Well, that should be a lesson learned.  Don't drink underage and especially don't pass out.

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MAY 17, 2022

**  Jacksonville City Council pans c(C)onfederate monument referendum.  (Florida.  Wonder why they did that.  Most times the people are allowed to vote on removal, it loses.)

**  CAIR supports  call for Virginia city of Fairfax to drop Confederate street names.  (CAIR is Council on American-Islamic relations.  Again, with all the terrorist activity attributed to Islamic people, should they be saying anything?)

**  Brooklyn's historic Fort Hamilton exercises  federally-mandated edict to banish  Confederate ties.  (General Lee Avenue renamed John E. Warren Avenue.  A well-deserved honor for him as he won a Medal of Honor recipient.)

However, I am just hoping everything is not renamed for a black person.  Come on, there has to be some worthy white folks.

--Old Secesh

History of Confederate Statues and Why They Divide Us. Fort Moore? Sad R.'s Pesky Pedestals, Another Hate Crime and Loudon Co.'s Sign Problem

 JULY 5, 2021

**  BEW POV doc explores the history of Confederate statues -- and why they divide us.

**  Why the Confederacy failed to recreate the American Revolution.

**  Family of Bardstown  Army leader seeks to rename Fort Benning after parents.  (Bardstown, Kentucky.  For their father, Lt. General Hal Moore, a Vietnam hero.  At least he is not a black person.  I worry that ALL bases will be named for Blacks.)

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JULY 6, 2021

**  Monuments, pedestals  on the agenda of Richmond's Planning Commission on Tuesday.  (Virginia.  Guess what sad R. will determine here.)

**  Jackson statue vandalized. (Charlottesville, Virginia.  Again, this is not vandalism, it is a hate crime.  Treat it as such.  If a white person did that to a black person's statue, it sure would be called a hate crime.  Level the field.)

**  Loudon County weighs what to do with roads named for Confederates, segregationists.  (Virginia.  Figuring this is in Virginia, what do you think they will do?)

**  Loudon's segregationist symbols inventory finds 16 roads, Mosby Heritage Area.  (Virginia)

--Old Secesh

Let the People Vote! Will the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Have to Go As Well?

AUGUST 8, 2020


**  FULL REPORT:  County judge  seeks vote on Confederate monument; poll question could be on November ballot.  (Gainesville, Texas.  This is the way the removal of all Confederate monuments should go, and not left up to politicians and Blacks.  I actually think that if removal was put up to a vote, most of the monuments would remain.  This is why BLMers are so much against taking a vote.

**  Letters for August 8:  Will the Vietnam  Veterans Memorial have to go too?  (Virginian Pilot.  Were bad things done by the United States in Vietnam.  Of course there were bad things.  As such, all memorials will have to go.

As a matter of fact,  bad things and atrocities have been committed in all wars by the U.S.  All war memorials will have to go.

**  Lawyer's guild says Floyd courthouse's Confederate monument sends wrong message.  (Roanoke, Va.)

**  Augusta mayor names  members of Confederate monuments task force.  (Georgia.  Guess what they're looking to do?)

**  Panel recommends Confederate statue remain on  historic list.  (Bentonville, Arkansas.  Stay on NRHP list even though it has been moved from public property to private property.)

--Old Secesh