Long overdue
Long overdue
Glad to see that the US military is finally getting around to removing taxpayer-funded honors for traitors and treason. Having grown up in the American South at the end of apartheid, I'm familiar with all the euphemisms: 'heroes of the War of Northern Aggression," "Preserving Southern Tradition." Uh, no, it was treason to preserve slavery.
"These symbols don’t exist as a result of accidents or coincidences. Nor were they part of efforts in the immediate wake of the war to “bind up the nation’s wounds,” as President Abraham Lincoln described it. They were created in the early years of the 20th century and remain echoes of a decades-long campaign to recast Confederate history. The real Big Lie, these efforts taught that the Confederacy was a noble “lost cause” attempt to maintain traditional American values, rather than a treasonous insurrection seeking to preserve slavery and the economic engine powered by the forced labor. The commission itself declared, “these names speak far more to the times, places and processes that created them than they do to any actual history of the Civil War, the Confederate insurrection, or our nation’s struggle over slavery and freedom.”"
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/06/opinion/us-military-stop-honoring-confederate-history-finally/
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