At least it's finally done. It took years to even get it started and tons of Confederate defenders protesting it.
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Id say there should be a Fort MacArthur, but it would have to be the largest of all of the forts, and free from any oversight
"I didn't fire him because he was a dumb sonofabitch, though he was... I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president."
Like Fort Ike, but still holding out for Fort Audey Murphy
How isn't there a fort named after him!? Isn't he one of the MOST decorated GIs in history?
Not one of the most, THE most.
Two-time Medal of Honor awardee, General Smedley Butler is a very strong contender.
He may not have as many, but not all awards are valued the same.
Butler has all but been erased from history. He fucked with the money, you see. For those of you who don't know, Butler snitched almost 100 years ago about a corporate plot to overthrow the US government. Sound familiar?
Because he has a dark history of spousal abuse, drug abuse, and mental illness. Likely caused by the events that earned him two Medal of Honors
Not likely caused by, most certainly caused by.
I find it amusing and satisfying that the US Navy has kept naming ships Kearsarge in honor of the first ship with that name, a sloop-of-war built during the Civil War to hunt down and sink Confederate raiders. It's just an ongoing floating "fuck you" to the South.
Interestingly, they even named a battleship Kearsarge at one point, the only US battleship ever built that was not named after a state. I think this glitch on an otherwise perfect record can be corrected: I support granting statehood to Puerto Rico on the condition that they rename themselves "Kearsarge".
Nah we have North and South Carolina/Dakota and a West Virginia that separated just to fight confederate ideals - let’s just rename one of those instead of colonizing even harder
North and South Carolina/Dakota and a West Virginia
All those have had battleship(s) named after them, though. If you rename one of them to Kearsarge, you still have the battleship naming convention problem.
What I’m hearing, is the moon is now named Kearsarge.
Now to get the names of things changed in the surrounding cities. "Yeah just take the Ft. Hood exit and you'll drive straight up to Ft. Cavasos."
I doubt Bragg Boulevard is ever going to be renamed.
It's also going to take generations before anyone calls it anything other than "Fort Bragg I Mean Fort Liberty."