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

Civil War II: King George, School Name Changes in Florida, Fort Belvoir in Virginia, Louisville and Savannah

JUNE 3, 2021

**  King George plans to relocate  Confederate monument to cemetery.  (King George County, Virginia.  I don't know about you, but I thought it was the Revolution all over again when I see the name King George.)

**  6 things you need to know about the Duval County school renaming process.  (Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida)

**  Fort Belvoir among installations under review for new names.  (Virginia.  It was not under the original change-the-name drive.  But was named for the plantation that was at the site of the fort.  Originally named Fort A.A. Humphreys, a Union general during the war.  Maybe change it back to that.)

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JUNE 4, 2021

**  Man in Louisville cited after allegedly removing pride flags;  Confederate flag  later found in their place.  (Kentucky)

**  Monuments commission:  No reason Savannah  should be 'lagging behind' on Confederate busts.  (Georgia)

**  USA  Today network South journalists win national journalism award  for 'Confederate Reckoning.'

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Stone Mountain, Juneteenth, Confederate Heritage Month, Fort Monroe, Alabama and Stonewall

MAY 1, 2021

**  A black pastor's  Confederate  memorial problem.  (Stone Mountain, Ga.  He is the head of the group that runs it.)

**  Organizers offer details on Juneteenth march, rally to remove Talbot Boys Confederate memorial.  (Maryland.  So, at what point will Blacks be asking that the United States celebrate Juneteenth instead of the Fourth of July?)

**  'There is not systemic racism' says a governor who named April as Confederate Heritage Month.  (From the Washington Post.  So, that explains it.)

**  Opinion:  Fort Monroe should be focused on its history, not its name.  (Virginia.  Well, you know, James Monroe, slave owner.)

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MAY 2, 2021

**  Alabama debates removing Confederate flag from its coat of arms. 

**  Washington County commissioners asked  to change name  of Confederate-named road.  (Stonewall Jackson.  Also looks like they might have to change name of county because, well, you know, somebody owned slaves.)

--Old Secesh

So What If Your Country Fave Has Confederate Flags? If They Don't Like It They Can Go Listen To Some Rap. Virginia's Woke East University

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

**  Fort Monroe named Site of Memory associated with UNESCO Slave Route Project.  (Virginia.  Real Civil War history.  Not the revisionist college professor stuff they're trying to ram down our throats.)

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

**  The future of Confederate monuments.  (These are the ones at National Park Service parks.  The editorial was in favor of removing them.  Hopefully not.)

**  Luke Combs shares ways to honor southern heritage  without a Confederate flag.  (Pretty lame way.  He has come under fire for being seen around Confederate flags.  He should just tell detractors where to go.)

**  Luke Combs' Confederate flag apology sparks discourse among country fans.  (There have not been many black country music artists, just like there have not been many white rap, soul urban artists.  However, watching all the black country artists performing on CMT, I'm beginning to wonder.  But country does have the late great Charley Pride and Darius Rucker.)

**  University buildings in Virginia once named  after Confederates now  honour African Americans.  (James Madison University.  Why must all renamings be for Blacks?  Aren't there any whites who deserve names on buildings?  From the Washington Post -- and we know where they stand on these issues.  The Post points out that the school is named for the country's 4th president who also owned you-know-what.  Guess what the Post would like to happen?  Welcome Woke University East or the Harriett Tubman University.)

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack: Making the Year End Reviews. Body Bags and Being 'Woke'

DECEMBER 26, 2020

**  Fake body bags lined up outside Alabama court house in protest over  SCOTUS justice.  (Marshall County, Alabama.   County named after John Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) who was a slave owner.  Reckon the county name will have to be changed now.)

**  New York state bans sale of Confederate flags.

**  The Woke see no evil -- and nothing but evil.  (I don't know about the suddenly "Woke" people.)

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

All this Confederate stuff has sure been making the year end reviews a lot.

**  Culpepper's 2020 top news stories:  COVID, solar, BLM and Confederate.

**  Looking Back: 2020 a tumultuous year.

**  Of all things:  Getting rid of Confederate statues.

**  Renaming Fort Benning and the role of memorial statues in America.

--Old Secesh

Fort Hood Becomes Fort Hobby? Tennessee, Wilmington, N.C., Arkansas and Texas

AUGUST 25, 2020


**  Collierville residents, other, ask board to remove Confederate marker   in square.  (Tennessee)

**  Plenty of theories, few answers as to why Pine Valley's streets have Confederate names.  (Wilmington, N.C.)

**  Task force to decide future of Confederate monument in Cleveland.  (Tennessee.  Guess how this one will turn out?)

**  Letter:  Confederate flag illustrates the 'evil power of symbol.'

**  Board backs name change for Fort Smith school.  (Arkansas)

**  Fort Hood:  Historians push to rename Fort Hood after Killeen trailblazer.  (Texas.  Oveta Culp Hobby, a white woman, who was first director of Women's Army Corps in WW II.  I could go along with this.)

I'd Back Any Fort Renamed for Anyone Who Is Not Black Except Colin Powell and Jackie Robinson.  I'd be okay with forts named after these two deserving men.  --Old Secesh

Even Sherman and Carson? That SPLC on Cannon Hinnant

AUGUST 13, 2020


**  There's a deal to move Greenville's Confederate monument, organizer says.  (South Carolina)

**  Confederate symbols to be explored in college's latest virtual  teach-in on social justice.    (Virginia Tech)

**  Will Monterrey County be stuck with its Confederate street names?  (California.  Also some other names like William T. Sherman, Kit Carson.)

**  He set out to show his son DC's 68 Civil War forts.  Protests made it more than a diversion.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

**  In rapid 'reckoning,' SPLC reports 38 Confederate monuments have been removed in the US since George Floyd's death.  It's a lot.  (Southern Poverty Law Center.  They, however, or really busy counting and rejoicing at the removed statues.  But, they said nothing about Cannon Hinnant, the murdered 5-year-old white boy in North Carolina.)

**  What should replace Confederate statues?  (Wants statues to famed black people.  Must they all have to be Blacks?  Aren't there some deserving whites?)

--Old Secesh

Fort McPherson Has a Nice Ring To It

JULY 13, 2020


**  A name worthy of honor.  (McPherson, Kansas, named after Union Gen. James Birdseye McPherson.  A monument for him sits on the lawn in front of the McPherson County Courthouse.  (Fortunately, BLM has not mistaken it for a Confederate officer).  Suggests Fort McPherson as a replacement name for Fort Hood.  McPherson was one of the Union's best generals and was killed at the Battle of Atlanta.

I could definitely go with this name.  As I have said before, I am in favor of renaming Army bases with Confederate names, but  those who want and demand  the bases be renamed, to put their money where their mouths are and pay any expenses incurred in doing this.

Also, I do not favor any of these bases being renamed for Blacks (although I am sure they all will be) for at least ten years, as that would be a slap in the face for those of us already losing all the statues and having our ancestors denigrated.  After ten years, rename some of the bases after Blacks.  I could definitely appreciate a  Fort Colin Powell.  A great man and I sure wish he would have run for president, but I guess he was too smart to get involved in that mess.  As a matter of fact, I would support a base being named for him right away.

**  Other female names the author proposed for military base names:

Navy Ensign Jane Kendeigh
Lt. Col. Nancy Harkness Love
Navy Lieutenant Susan Ann Cuddy
Mae Krier  (Rosie the Riveter)
Colonel Ruby Bradely

Again, any of these as long as they are not Black.  But after ten years, it can be changed.

Father Bob Layne has some good ideas.

--Old Secesh

Now, the "Dukes of Hazzard" Car, Fort Hobby?, Fort Bragg, Trump and Mississippi Flag Change

JULY 5, 2020


**  Museum:  'Dukes of Hazzard' car with Confederate flag will stay.  (Volo Auto Museum, Volo, Illinois.  You know who wanted it gone.  Really, what they got 'gainst Bo, Luke and Daisy?

**  Confederate signs still on graves as history is re-examined.

**  Reader suggests renaming Fort Hood for Ovetta Culb Hobby.  (She was a white woman and first director of U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.  This could be a good name for the renamed base if it comes to that.)

**  Fort Bragg commission to tackle name change issue, systemic racism.

**  Dem senator says Trump would be 'abandoning the troops' if he vetoes Defense spending bill.

**  About race and erasure:  How America should sort through complicated questions about monuments and men.  (New York Daily News.  Interesting take on the situation.)

**  Analysis:  Ex-Rep Henry set path to Mississippi flag change.

--  Old Secesh

Monumentless Avenue in Richmond as Orgy Continues. Base Name Controversy Continues, Georgia Confederate Cemetery Is Victim of Hate Crime

JULY 2, 2020


**  House panel intensifies  showdown with Trump over renaming of Fort Hood and other Confederate bases.

**  Confederate street sign is missing in Fort Mill.  (Wonder who took it.)

**  Military bases should be renamed, we must move forward in the spirit of reconciliation.  (This is not so much of reconciliations as Black and Democratic tyranny.)

**  Stonewall Jackson removed from Monument Avenue.  (His statue, not him.  The Richmond mayor and Virginia governor's statue orgy continues.  Pretty soon they will have to change the name of the street to Monumentless Avenue.)

**  Trump backs Confederate base names as monuments to racism continue to fall.  (Guess whose side these folks are on?)

**  Donna Brazile on Confederate monuments:  America must 'transcend' bitter past to walk into 'brighter future.'  (This was on Fox News.  She is a black woman and a former  DNC chairwoman.  Would CNN have this interview?)

**  Inhofe, Horn discuss massive  defense spending bill and confederate-named base fight.  (Confederate, guys, Confederate.)

**  Georgia Confederate cemetery vandalized.  (Resaca, Georgia.  Confederate flags taken off graves and rearranged into words.  This should be considered a hate crime.  I am of the belief that anything in cemeteries about the Confederacy is next on the list of BLM and their white minions.)

**  NFL  legend is assisting  in the fight to change name of these Texas high schools.

**  TCU investigating  alleged racist behavior, posts from members of family with school ties.  (Texas Christian University.)

--Old Secesh

Who's Anti-History?, California, Mississippi, Army, Forts, Maine, Trump, Republicans

JUNE 26, 2020


**  The Lost Cause's Long Legacy.  (Atlantic)

**  California group seeks to change Confederate place names.

**  Confederate symbol on Mississippi sparks strong debate.

**  California confronts its racist past as tributes to Confederates and colonizers fall.

**  The Army won't ban Confederate flag displays  without  Pentagon's approval.

**  Fort Hood to Fort Murphy.  (By the way, is that person at Fort Hood who murdered all the unarmed soldiers on base still alive?)

**  How 7 Confederate soldiers came to be buried in Maine.  (How'd this get in here.  Real Civil War history.  Not this revisionist racist stuff.)

**  Trump slams GOP-led panel  backing removal of Confederate names from military bases.

**  Opinion:  Confederate statue defenders are promoting an anti-history agenda.  (Tennessean)

Little Old Anti-History Me.  --Old Secesh

Fort Mill, Mitch McConnell, Fort Bragg, Oldest City and New Names for the Bases

JUNE 21, 2020

**  Town of Fort Mill on Confederate Park:  We cannot legally rename the park or remove the statues.  (South Carolina)

**  Mitch McConnell says he is 'OK' with removing Confederate names from military bases, unlike Trump.

**  Renaming Fort Bragg is personal in NC congressional race.

**  While Confederate statues come down, other symbols targeted.

**  In America's oldest city, a reckoning over Confederate past.  (St. Augustine, Florida)

**  Ten names of American heroes that should replace Army bases named after Confederates.  (Since the bases will eventually be renamed, these are good names and none of them are of Blacks.  I am not completely against black-named bases, but since all this current mess is because of them being offended, I don't want another slap in the face.  Maybe change the name later after a cooling off period.)

**  Albert Pike statue toppling hits home in Fort Smith.

--Old Secesh