There are Senators who often act contrary to the best interest of all American. I often forget @SenJohnKennedy is one of them...likely because he’s so predictable.
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1273022555012595717
Ft Polk is in Louisiana. I know, because I served there for over 3 years in the early 80’s. When I was there, all the soldiers knew there was a KKK chapter in a town near the tanks ranges. Ft Polk was named for Confederate general and West Point graduate Leonidas Polk.
Polk graduated from West Point, then immediately resigned his commission to become a minister. He was the largest slaveholder in his county by 1840, with 111 slaves. By 1850 census he owned 215, with estimates as high as 400.
Pres Jeff Davis was his classmate at West Point, reaches out to him & elevated him to general despite his lack of military experience. Polk is most remembered for constantly disagreeing with immediate superiors & for an overall lack of success in combat.
Ft Polk is a great training base now, called JRTC (Joint Readiness Training Center). It deserves a better name. And no one is “picking on the south,” Senator Kennedy.
And btw, Barksdale AIr Force Base is the partner facility with Polk. That AFB is named for a WWI aviator and test pilot. See, it isn’t so hard to name bases and posts after real patriots.
There’s also England AFB, names after WWII ace John Brooke England, another lifelong Army Air Corps/USAF pilot.
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