I am going to pull out my ranting..
For the past two years, we have seen the howling mobs desecrate and pull down Confederate statues. Nary a word is mentioned that these statues have been around for decades with little to no attention paid to them.
The US Military, deciding they must be compliant to the woke mob, has established a “renaming commission”. Originally, it was everything Confederate. Now, as reported by the Military Times;
The Pentagon’s Confederate renaming commission is taking a look outside places and things named after individual Confederates, its chair told reporters Friday, to include anything named to honor the Confederacy.
Fort Belvoir and the guided missile destroyer Antietam have not before come up in the Confederate renaming discussion, but retired Adm. Michelle Howard said that the commission is taking a broad look.
Belvoir, originally the name of a plantation on which the post now sits, was dubbed Fort A.A. Humphreys when it became an Army installation in 1917. In 1935, it went back to Belvoir, at the request of a Virginia congressman who wanted to recognize the historical Belvoir plantation.
“We want to get to Fort Belvoir and dig more deeply into the historical context,” Howard said.
Similarly, she added, the guided missile cruiser Antietam
is also under consideration, because it’s named after a Civil War battle.
“… it depends on whether or not you see Antietam as a Union victory,” Howard said, of the battle that ended in a sort of truce, with Confederate troops withdrawing, though the Union took more casualties.
Similarly, the cruiser Chancellorsville, named after what is considered Gen. Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory, is already on the list, as is the oceanographic survey ship Maury, named for a Confederate sailor.
Each of the military departments will be responsible for doing the research to put together their own lists
Basically, these twit brains are, possibly, going to rename the USS Antietam because they find issue with the conclusion of the battle that led to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation!
In Algebra, everyone is trying to solve for X. I am mathematically challenged so my solving equation on the matter of erasing all things Confederate goes something like this. If you erase all things Confederate, the Union Army had no one to have a war with or never existed. If there was no Civil War, there are two options; slavery still exists or slavery never existed. Going a step further no Union Army means they have to rename every Union named military base, ship, etc.
Now, we have eliminated all the current named military “things”. Time for thoughts on how to select their new names. The Army will choose from nature; Fort Apple Tree, Fort Daisy, Fort Maple, etc. The Air Force will choose from things related to air; Fort Cumulus, Fort Rainbow, Fort Sunrise, etc. The Navy chooses from the fish species; USS Haddock, USS Flounder, USS Salmon, etc. The Marines will choose from land, as they are the “land Navy”; Fort Dirt, Fort Pebbles, Fort Crabgrass, etc. Last, but not least, the Coast Guard will choose from (You guessed it!) coast names; USS Gulf of Mexico, USS Atlantic, USS Pacific, etc.
I see y’all out there rolling your eyes at me. Frankly, my thesis is no more ridiculous than their idiocy. Now, to participate in this renaming, you are all invited to rename something military. To avoid any semblance of choosing either side, you must use the new naming policy.