{"id":113831,"date":"2021-05-22T07:15:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T11:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=113831"},"modified":"2021-05-21T22:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T02:47:53","slug":"fort-belvoir-cruiser-antietam-under-consideration-for-renaming-by-dod-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=113831","title":{"rendered":"Fort Belvoir, cruiser Antietam under consideration for renaming by DoD commission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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USS Antietam (CG-54) – Possibly a racist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jeff LPH 3 sends in this Military Times piece<\/a>. Apparently, going after things named for Confederates wasn’t enough for the Ministry of Truth. They’re “taking a broad look.”<\/p>\n

From Military Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The Pentagon\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to get to Fort Belvoir and dig more deeply into the historical context,\u201d Howard said.<\/p>\n

Similarly, she added, the guided missile cruiser Antietam is also under consideration, because it\u2019s named after a Civil War battle.<\/p>\n

\u201c… it depends on whether or not you see Antietam as a Union victory,\u201d Howard said, of the battle that ended in a sort of truce, with Confederate troops withdrawing, though the Union took more casualties.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the cruiser Chancellorsville, named after what is considered Gen. Robert E. Lee\u2019s greatest victory, is already on the list, as is the oceanographic survey ship Maury, named for a Confederate sailor.<\/p>\n

Each of the military departments will be responsible for doing the research to put together their own lists<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s more at the source.<\/p>\n

As the article notes, the name of Fort Belvoir comes from the plantation that preceded the fort on that land. In fact, the plantation predates the Confederacy by twelve decades and was destroyed in the War of 1812, nearly half a century before the Confederacy.<\/p>\n

USS Antietam is the third ship to bear the name. The first was commissioned\u00a0during\u00a0<\/em>the Civil War. It’s hardly a monument to the Confederacy and clearly was a monument to the Union lives lost (12,000 or so) at the Battle of Antietam. Antietam wasn’t a conclusive victory for either side (the Confederates also lost ~12k men). It was a strategic victory for the Union and gave President Lincoln the confidence to make the Emancipation Proclamation just a few days later.<\/p>\n

The second USS Antietam was a World War II Essex-class aircraft carrier. While headed to the South Pacific in August 1945 to join the war, Japan surrendered. She was the first aircraft carrier to have an angled flight deck added and saw service in the Korean War.<\/p>\n

The current USS Antietam has been in service since 1983, took part in Operation Desert Shield (receiving a Navy Unit Commendation), and has received nine Battle “E” awards. It’s arguable that she is named for the previous two USS Antietams.<\/p>\n

Let’s just erase all heritage and history from everything. As is the tradition in socialist countries, all ships will be known solely by hull\/pennant number. The NFL has already started this with the “Washington Football Team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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