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A congressionally mandated group tasked with making a list of Defense Department \u201citems\u201d named in honor of the Confederacy<\/a> and suggesting new names, held some town halls over the summer, soliciting feedback<\/a> from communities about changing the names of the eight Army posts and buildings at one Navy base they\u2019ve so far visited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Naming Commission<\/a> plans to visit Fort Pickett, Virginia, and Fort Polk, Louisiana, by the end of November, according to retired Adm. Michelle Howard, who heads up the commission, before finalizing a list of posts, ships, streets, etc. to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYes, I would say there are those who took the opportunity to vent a little to the commission and made it clear,\u201d Howard said, according to a transcript of a Thursday media roundtable<\/a>, in response to question about the mood in the sessions, later adding, \u201dI will say that some of those suggestions on the website are quite intense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commission launched a crowdsourcing site in September to take renaming suggestions, of which they\u2019ve received about 27,000, she said, roughly 5,000 of which have had multiple submissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, there are some folks who are distinctly opposed, and the verbiage they use is quite deliberate,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd they \u2015 they make it clear they do not support the commission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commission briefed the House and Senate Armed Services on their progress Thursday, along with an early cost estimate for the expenses associated with name changes, including new signage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have been collecting estimated costs. Those definitely need to be refined,\u201d Howard said. \u201cAnd we provided the initial estimated costs to the HASC and SASC today, but I\u2019m not able to share that with you since that was information collected from DoD and then provided to Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suggestions include Master Sgt. Roy Benavidez, a Vietnam-era Special Forces soldier who earned the Medal of Honor, widely suggested as a better namesake for what\u2019s now Fort Hood, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gen. William T. Sherman, a Union officer who helped negotiate the Confederate surrender, has also been floated as a possible replacement for either of two Georgia posts under consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe spent the summer meeting hundreds of military and civilian leaders and community stakeholders as at places such as Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Gordon and Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Rucker, Alabama; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis [Maryland]; and Fort Lee and for A.P. Hill in Virginia. We also visited Fort Belvoir in Virginia. And we realize we have to assess whether it falls within our remit to make Fort Belvoir a naming recommendation,\u201d Howard said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each installation had different concerns, she said, offering A.P. Hill as an example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was in one community where there\u2019s still \u2014 still some frustration within the community, because when the base was created in World War II, the land was taken by eminent domain, and the descendants of the original landowners still feel deeply about their ties to that land, which is now underneath federal control,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd so, in that case, the community \u2014 a couple folks \u2014 suggested it would be nice to have streets named after the original family members of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commission has until October 2022 to get a final list of items for renaming to Congress, according to the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, and then another year after that to implement changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army\u2019s many commemorative installations don\u2019t follow a specific theme, so renaming those posts presents a bit of a challenge. Fort Lewis, Washington, is named for explorer Meriweather Lewis, while Fort Bragg, North Carolina, was named for a Confederate general, at a time when the Army was naming many of its southern posts to honor homegrown troops, despite their Civil War affiliations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howard suggested the commission might be interested in taking a more contemporary tack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe know that in each of these communities there are modern-day soldiers who reflect the values and courage of our military service and our nation. And they also reflect the values, the great values, of the communities,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, I think we\u2019re going to be able to get to folks that are reflective of the armed forces today, but also reflect the character and characteristics of the armed forces today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe, whose posthumous Medal of Honor nomination for actions in Iraq is still tied up in bureaucracy, has been floated as Fort Benning, Georgia, replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Benning community was incredibly engaged both on post and off post, and they had a variety of different names and they mentioned, at least four different names …,\u201d retired Army Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule, a commission member, said Thursday. \u201cSo we got an earful there \u2014 I mean, really constructive views \u2014 on the way forward, and they gave us at least a handful of names. And then we\u2019ve had many, many more come in from the website, as well. So there\u2019s no shortage of amazing Americans who the commission could choose for that great post.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another \u201cconsistent\u201d Benning suggestion is Fort Moore, Howard said, after retired Army Lt. Gen. Hal Moore<\/a>, a Vietnam War battalion commander and author of We Were Soldiers Once …. and Young, and his wife Julia<\/a>, who helped revolutionize the casualty notification process after the Battle of Ia Drang<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commission is also looking at two Navy ships, the cruiser Chancellorsville and the oceanographic survey ship Maury. Howard said they\u2019re not sure whether they\u2019re going to visit those ships\u2019 home ports for the same town hall-style event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c… because there\u2019s probably definitely less community involvement with this specific ship,\u201d she said. \u201c… I think the stakeholders for the ship are going to be the sailors, former sailors and veterans who have served on that ship as well, as Navy leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there will be more nuanced decisions to make. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, honors Confederate army boss Gen. Robert E. Lee, including a road and a barracks named for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo when we were at West Point, there is a picture of, a photograph of, Maj. Robert E. Lee as superintendent of West Point, with the dates underneath him, and he\u2019s in a long row of photographs and portraiture of other superintendents. There is nothing about that that says, \u2018This is Lee as a Confederate general,\u2019 ” Howard said. \u201cIt\u2019s very clear it\u2019s just a historical reckoning of Lee as the superintendent when he was a major, and in the United States Army. We look at that and go, \u2018That\u2019s probably not within our remit.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But another item is a different story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a large portrait, created in the modern century of Gen. Lee in Confederate uniform \u2014 specifically on the nameplate, it refers to him as Gen. Lee, [Confederate States of America],\u201d she said. \u201cOK, that is clearly a portrait done to commemorate Robert E. Lee as a Confederate general. Maybe a better place for that portrait is in a museum, rather than in a federal building.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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