{"id":6616,"date":"2020-06-11T07:47:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T12:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6616"},"modified":"2020-06-14T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T14:58:07","slug":"renaming-military-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6616","title":{"rendered":"Renaming Military Bases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we&#8217;re not renaming military bases because Confederate generals are a part of our history (although it will be interesting to see if Trump gets countermanded again) &#8230; can we start applying the same &#8220;it&#8217;s part of history, so we need to remember it&#8221; logic when naming <em>new<\/em> bases (or ships)? <span data-offset-key=\"7cq0t-0-0\">The generally abysmal lack of historic knowledge probably requires very specific locations for the names to be meaningful if we go with Revolutionary War figures &#8212; Fort Burgoyne in the Satatoga area, maybe rename a naval base with Arbuthnot. And of course we&#8217;d need a Fort Arnold. <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"7r7fk-0-0\">But why ignore the last 150 years? Have a Fort Wilhelm II. Fort Minh. Fort Sandino. Or combine base renaming with current-day diplomacy. I&#8217;m sure Kim Jong-un will be honored when we unveil Fort Kim Il-sung. It&#8217;s all part of our history, right? <\/span><\/p>\n<p>On a tangentially related note &#8230; how many people have actually stopped to look at a statue? Read the name on the statue? Read the blurb about the person? Gone home and spent an hour researching the individual? Does the fact a <a href=\"http:\/\/gettysburg.stonesentinels.com\/monuments-to-individuals\/francis-barlow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statue exists at Gettysburg<\/a> mean the general population remembers Francis Channing Barlow? Are we <em>really<\/em> in danger of forgetting who Robert E Lee was if statues aren&#8217;t standing in our parks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we&#8217;re not renaming military bases because Confederate generals are a part of our history (although it will be interesting to see if Trump gets countermanded again) &#8230; can we start applying the same &#8220;it&#8217;s part of history, so we need to remember it&#8221; logic when naming new bases (or ships)? The generally abysmal lack &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1016,171,279],"class_list":["post-6616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-blm-protests","tag-history","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6617,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions\/6617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}