With the official renaming Friday of Fort Gordon to Fort Eisenhower in Georgia, the Army has now renamed nine installations that previously honored Confederate generals.
I find it amusing and satisfying that the US Navy has kept naming ships Kearsarge in honor of the first ship with that name, a sloop-of-war built during the Civil War to hunt down and sink Confederate raiders. It’s just an ongoing floating “fuck you” to the South.
Interestingly, they even named a battleship Kearsarge at one point, the only US battleship ever built that was not named after a state. I think this glitch on an otherwise perfect record can be corrected: I support granting statehood to Puerto Rico on the condition that they rename themselves “Kearsarge”.
I find it amusing and satisfying that the US Navy has kept naming ships Kearsarge in honor of the first ship with that name, a sloop-of-war built during the Civil War to hunt down and sink Confederate raiders. It’s just an ongoing floating “fuck you” to the South.
Interestingly, they even named a battleship Kearsarge at one point, the only US battleship ever built that was not named after a state. I think this glitch on an otherwise perfect record can be corrected: I support granting statehood to Puerto Rico on the condition that they rename themselves “Kearsarge”.