{"id":131778,"date":"2022-10-07T07:05:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T11:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=131778"},"modified":"2022-10-06T18:19:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T22:19:07","slug":"plan-approved-to-remove-confederate-references-from-dod-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=131778","title":{"rendered":"Plan approved to remove Confederate references from DOD property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/If-you-want-to-remove-the-greatest-symbol-of-racism-in-America-leave-statues-alone-and-remove-the-Democratic-Party.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-131779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/If-you-want-to-remove-the-greatest-symbol-of-racism-in-America-leave-statues-alone-and-remove-the-Democratic-Party-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/If-you-want-to-remove-the-greatest-symbol-of-racism-in-America-leave-statues-alone-and-remove-the-Democratic-Party-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/If-you-want-to-remove-the-greatest-symbol-of-racism-in-America-leave-statues-alone-and-remove-the-Democratic-Party-342x333.jpg 342w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/If-you-want-to-remove-the-greatest-symbol-of-racism-in-America-leave-statues-alone-and-remove-the-Democratic-Party.jpg 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense has approved a plan to remove Confederate references from military posts, ships, monuments, and tributes. A working group has been convened to oversee the removal and replacing of Confederate related tributes beginning in December. The Defense Secretary lauded the planned efforts to remove them.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From the Army Times:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI thank the Commission for its tremendous work and dedication, its determination to respond to the directives of our elected representatives in Congress, and its sensitivity to the concerns and emotions raised by this important discussion,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe Commission\u2019s thorough and historically informed work has put the Department on a path to meet Congressional intent \u2014 and to remove from U.S. military facilities all names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the forthcoming changes are:<\/p>\n<p>* The renaming of Forts Lee, Pickett and A.P. Hill in Virginia; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Forts Gordon and Benning in Georgia; Fort Rucker, Alabama; Fort Polk, Louisiana; and Fort Hood, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>* The renaming of the cruiser Chancellorsville and the oceanographic survey ship Maury, at the discretion of the Navy secretary.<\/p>\n<p>* Renaming of buildings and street names, as well as removal of artwork, monuments and other tributes at the U.S. Military Academy and U.S. Naval Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The commission has drawn the ire of many who believe that the rebranding paints over U.S. history and undoes the reconciliation with the South that many of the original names intended.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump was a vocal critic of the effort, though Congress overruled his veto of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, with an overwhelming majority, to put the commission into law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More information can be read on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2022\/10\/06\/austin-approves-plan-to-drop-confederate-references-from-dod-property\/\">Army Times<\/a> and on the Department of Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2022\/Oct\/06\/2003092544\/-1\/-1\/1\/IMPLEMENTATION-OF-THE-NAMING-COMMISSIONS-RECOMMENDATIONS.PDF\">memorandum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Defense has approved a plan to remove Confederate references from military posts, ships, &hellip; <a title=\"Plan approved to remove Confederate references from DOD property\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=131778\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plan approved to remove Confederate references from DOD property<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}