A Questionable Point to Raise on Memorial Day

[Remius]

:goodpost:

Agreed.  I'm going to use that in my signature block at work. ;D

 

[Ostrozac]

If you were to rename Fort Bragg, should you name it after the city it is located in? Fort Fayetteville? Or is that name off limits, because the Marquis de Lafayette was implicated in atrocities against civilians in the 1700s? Or Fort Carolina? But the Carolina colony was named after Charles II, a notorious womanizer, so that name may be inappropriate and offensive to family values. Or Fort America? But Amerigo Vespucci is suspected of being a glory-seeker and exaggerating his role as an explorer.

General Bragg was a famous soldier, and he was from North Carolina. And the Fort has had his name for close to a hundred years. Let the name be.

Should the Egyptians have to rename Alexandria because Alexander the Great practiced slavery?

 

[daftandbarmy]

I'm just glad that someone cared enough to post an article regarding some aspect of history in a major newspaper that did not involve a drug addicted rock star or a philandering politician.

The History degree is not yet dead!