Purge Continues as Congressional Committee Asks West Point to Toss Robert E. Lee Into Dust Bin of History
The Great Leftist Purge continues.
redstate.com
As reported by College Fix, the Naming Commission, consisting of four retired U.S. military veterans and four civilians, submitted the second part of its final report to Congress on August 29. The commission unanimously agreed that seven Department of Defense “assets” dedicated to Confederate generals Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard, and William Hardee be renamed.
Beauregard, the first Confederate general of prominence, has historically been “credited” with starting the Civil War, leading the attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Hardee was a career U.S. Army and Confederate States Army officer. He served in U.S. Army in the Mexican–American War, where he was captured and exchanged. In the American Civil War, he sided with the South and became a general.
Lee Barracks, noted College Fix, Lee Housing Area, Lee Area Child Development Center, Lee Road, and Lee Gate should all be renamed, according to the commission. There’s more — per the report.
In addition, the commission called for “Reconciliation Plaza,” which honors soldiers who lost their lives in the Civil War, to be stripped of all mention of the Confederacy, including a bust of Lee next to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. (Somewhere, George Orwell and Ray Bradbury are saying “We told you so.”)
