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"Fort Audie Murphy" and "Fort Doris Miller" also have a nice ring to them.
OK, "Fort Audie Murphy" and "NAS Doris Miller."
Renaming Fort Hood doesn't dishonor the soldiers who served there. It stops honoring a traitor- and not only a traitor, an incompetent traitor.
"Fort Elvis" >>>>>>>> "Fort Hood"
Nobody's talking about desecrating and digging up Confederate graveyards. The question is why are military installations of the United States of America named in honor of armed insurrectionists who went to war against it.
I see that some of you are are saying these military installations were named for Confederates as an act of post-Civil War national reconciliation. Please note: Fort Hood was created in 1942. They named it after that loser in f**king World War II.
"Why are these installations named after Confederates?"

"Because we needed a gesture of national reconciliation after the Civil War."

"Wouldn't renaming them now also be an act of national reconciliation?"

"WHY ARE YOU CAVING TO THE AMERICA-HATING TRAITORS?"
Advocating renaming Fort Hood to Fort Audie Murphy or Fort Roy Benavidez is not "giving into the mob."

Naming it Fort Hood in the first place was giving into the mob.
Gee, I dunno, maybe the 10,000 black soldiers currently serving at Fort Hood who might take a bit of offense at the fact it's named after a fuckwit who went to war against the USA to preserve slavery? Just spitballing here
Let's face it, branding-wise, "Fort Hood" isn't that much different than "Fort Nidal Hasan"
Once again, I'm no "conservative," gutless or otherwise. Just because I make fun of ridiculous anarchist shitheads in Seattle, don't expect me to defend the sacred honor of General Beauregard T Shithead.

Go ahead and erect the biggest marble & gold statue you want at the family plot to the eternal beloved memory of great great great great Grandpappy and his valiant rebellion against Yankee aggression, don't care. Just don't name US military bases for him.

No, the "logical reason" is that in 1918 the KKK was at the height of its political power, sitting in full regalia at the DNC. Wilson in the White House, screening Birth of a Nation, resegregating military and civil service.
And thus the irony in this whole debate: naming US military bases after Confederate generals *in the first place* was in part to curry political favor with violent radicals.
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