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Fort Hood, Redux
“It is time to remove the names of traitors like Benning and Bragg from our country’s most important military installations. — General David Petraeus
Fort Hood in Texas is named for John Bell Hood, graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and veteran of the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy. It is an insult that the base is named for Hood. Anyone who thinks the name should stay should explain. I doubt they can convince anyone new of their convictions. Hood is undeserving of any honor of this nature. Maybe, the U.S. should name Pearl Harbor after one of the Japanese generals responsible for attacking that U.S. Naval base. It makes about that much sense.
Hood served in the Confederate Army. He was a General by the time of Sherman’s famous “March” to the Sea through Georgia. He famously wrote to Sherman as Sherman torched the South and made it howl and made clear his racist hate. Here is what Hood wrote to Sherman:
“You came into our country with your Army, avowedly for the purpose of subjugating free white men, women, and children, and not only intend to rule over them, but you make negroes your allies, and desire to place over us an inferior race, which we have raised from barbarism to its…
