U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, with the blessing of President Donald Trump, has been renaming various forts within our military establishment.
This follows efforts from the Biden administration to change the names of these installations. While Biden and the lefties in his administration went way overboard with their woke nonsense, they did the right thing in stripping these military facilities of the names of confederate generals who helped promote a civil war to maintain slavery.
As I noted in prior articles, I was disturbed when I took a trip to Savannah and Charleston about a decade ago. I saw one statue after another that had Confederate generals on a pedestal. I thought to myself how awkward and disgusting it would be for an African-American dad trying to explain to his nine-year-old son and daughter why our country was emulating these people.
Shortly thereafter, their names were removed. But now in a case of tit for tat, the new administration is placing the names back. But they’re being too cute by half by, for instance, not renaming it specifically for Robert E. Lee the Confederate general, but rather for some low-level soldier, Fitzhugh “Fitz” Lee, that few ever heard of before. The same pertains to Fort Bragg.
This is one time I’ll use the annoying slogan of President Biden: “Come on, man.”