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How about Fort Che Guevara?

1. I believe (if I remember this right), many of these installations with Confederate generals as names were given these during WWI and WWII as young troops (from the South) went there to train. It was a form of reconciliation at the time since there were still North/South animosities.

2. Regardless of the side they fought on, they were still Americans in the greater sense. They served bravely, some gave limb, eye sight, or even their life. Naming a military installation after a distinguished Army officer does not mean one condones every action or belief held by that individual. There were many racist generals in the North and ironically not every general in the South was pro-slavery: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/robert-e-lee-slaves.html It is said Grant was a flaming alchoholic... So does that mean naming something after Grant is saying excessive drinking is OK? This is absurd!

3. It's tradition and culture. America is a very thin and weak culture. We reinvent ourselves continuously, we rewrite history, distort the sciences, suppress logical ideas that go against the current of the times. We are a very fashionable/trendy people where no matter what it is, you are expected to go with the masses, or else. That said, true culture is seared into a society over many years in the language, names, statues, architecture, poetry, symbols, music, dance... and in the US we are very weak in that respect because we bury our culture. That is why the US can go from anti-gay in 1994 to gay affirming, free government handouts, security clearances and even targeting the gay community for government jobs in 15 years. There is nothing resisting, i.e. religion is malleable and weak, there is no racial identity (except for some minority groups that do), nationalism (a tribal identity) is weak (for most of the population), family is weak. Those are the things which convey culture and because these are weak, you can basically mold people like clay over here. Fort Hood is just a name, but it's culture which includes WWII (1942 - until now) and millions of people that went through there over the years.

This is all wrong.

But those making these idiotic decisions are pandering to other idiots which are beating some race drum and do not even know what they are talking about.

In America we are tearing down statues of Jefferson while in Huntsville Alabama you have statues of a card carrying Nazi (Werner von Braun) that was OK with ~30,000 folks dying in building his underground bunkers for the V2 rockets he designed: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._von_Braun%27s_Bust.jpg