Honoring Real Heroes

From Military.com: 

“Sound Off: Should We Replace Confederate Base Names With Those of Modern Heroes?”

A group of Texas veterans has proposed that the secretary of the Army rename Fort Hood. Named in honor of Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood, the veterans want to instead designate it as Fort Benavidez in honor of Medal of Honor recipient Special Forces Master Sgt. Roy Benavidez, who was severely wounded in action in Vietnam in 1968. This suggests an idea that can solve one or two major problems, depending on your perspective. Problem one is the fact that the vast majority of our military facilities had been named before the beginning of the Vietnam War. As a result, a traditional way to honor military heroes hasn’t been available to veterans of modern wars. Problem two is that many (mainly Army) facilities are named after Confederate officers. What may have been intended as a gesture of reconciliation after the Civil War can’t hide the fact that the American government named its military facilities after the leaders of an enemy force.* Fort Lee, Fort Hood, Fort Bragg, Fort Benning and Fort Rucker are among the most important bases in America. Changing their names would be a powerful way to honor heroes of our modern conflicts and give younger generations a stronger connection to troops who served within the last generation or two. We’re currently honoring a group of men who aren’t even wearing the uniforms of the US Army in the images we’re using to illustrate where the base name originated.

^ I will never understand why the United States of America ever honored the soldiers of the Confederacy with monuments, memorials and their names on places. They literally were fighting for the dissolution of the country and had they succeeded the United States of America as we know it today would have been vastly different and the places these military bases (Fort Lee, Fort Hood, Fort Bragg, Fort Benning, etc.) would be in another country: the Confederate States of America. The US needs to mix these mistakes (made mostly to appease Southerners after the Civil War) and not only remove the memorials and monuments to them (and put them in museums where they can no longer honor the people they were once supposed to honor and so that people remember that for 154 years we did make the mistake of honoring them) but also rename every place throughout the country that is named for a Confederate to one of a real hero of the United States and not a hero of an American traitor who wished to destroy our country.  American history has so many great men and women that have done many great things for our country that we can choose from to replace those of these Confederate traitors.  Do I actually think these memorials, monuments and place names will be taken down? No. There are too many people that still believe in the “Lost Cause” of the Confederacy and they continue to fight 150+ years after they lost. Do I think these memorials, monuments and place names should be taken down? Yes!  ^

https://www.military.com/off-duty/2019/08/05/sound-should-we-replace-confederate-base-names-those-modern-heroes.html