... a very shallow person. All I desire from the undisputed RE-ELECTED Leader of our Federal Republic is a simple signature on a piece of Paper. He said he would do it. He better! Get rid of this FT. liberty KRAP. It is: FT. BRAGG! GOT IT? FT. BRAGG! "Where did you train in the Army, Daddy"? "Well son, I trained at a place of Hallowed Ground, called 'liberty'". "Where was that, Daddy? I never heard of that place, and you know I read all the G.I. Joe and Sgt. Slaughter comics and watch all the old war movies on TV. Is it there, anymore"? Embarrassing....
I respectfully (of course) ask @ Main Post or Mackall? Either way....very Hallowed Ground and don't walk by either without saluting (no matter the rank)...and let Cadre' see that. There are not enough Push Ups possible to atone. I sure hope that hasn't changed, with this ft. liberty stuff.
The only thing that would be better than re-instituting the real name would be to change it to Fort General Lee.... That outta make some foo-foo heads explode.
Yeah, but the mess wouldn't be grey matter . . . it'd be blue. Chuckle . . . I kill me (forget who said that .. . Alf, maybe?)
Lee was a gentleman and a leader on par with a George Patton…. He just happened to be on the wrong side….. Heck, Erwin Rommel was a great leader and a superb tactician. But again, he wore the wrong uniform.
Interesting..... I am having a crisis of conscience by informing you of a slight re-consideration of your position may be necessary (and I understand it is 'fashionable' to be anti-Confederacy in the social climate of the last several years), BUT: Every generation since the end of the Civil War, including this generation and the generation you align with, and EVERY future generation, for a minimum of 10 generations out, has been and will be "supporting" the Confederacy in some manner for various reparations/reimbursements/illnesses/eminent domain taking/pensions/monument-historical site preservation/land subsidies etc. via (here it comes)............... YOUR TAX DOLLARS. So.....
Maybe study the West Point Class of Officer Candidates that were enrolled at that time and scheduled to graduate, when the Civil War started, and what occurred.
.... and what about your tax $ still being budgeted and spent due to the Confederacy Surrender? Do you agree with "... this much"? BTW, are you aware that the Officer ... a Lt. Col. and later a Brevet General, that was Aide-De-Camp to General Grant.... wrote the Terms of Surrender on a piece of paper for both General Lee and Grant to sign (and it was his creation and was not dictated to by either General) was a Native American Seneca, named Parker, and what the Native American Tribes thought about the War, and what Quanah Parker the last Comanche Chief that never signed a Treaty with the U.S. Government, and never surrendered, thought about the ragtag post Civil War Army consisting of a slovenly and disgruntled mixture of North and South Troops sent to destroy the Comanche Nation and what the Comanche Nation thought about the Civil War (keep in mind the Llano Estacado location within Comancheria). Or, what General Lee said to Lt. Col. Parker when General Lee signed the Surrender and what Lt. Col. Parker replied? It is all interconnected, more than you think, and is unshakeable History. The Surrender Document is preserved and is the only Document. It might give you pause about that whole me no like Confederacy stuff. Open minds....key to learning.
