U.S. military finishes renaming bases that previously honored Confederates
U.S. military finishes renaming bases that previously honored Confederates
With the official renaming Friday of Fort Gordon to Fort Eisenhower in Georgia, the Army has now renamed nine installations that previously honored Confederate generals.
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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.