The U.S. Army is reconsidering it's decision to leave the names intact...including Alabama's Ft. Rucker.
POLTICO reports:
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy is now "open" to renaming the service's 10 bases and facilities that are named after Confederate leaders, an Army spokesperson told POLITICO, in a reversal of the service's previous position.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper also supports the discussion, the spokesperson said.
"The Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Army are open to a bi-partisan discussion on the topic," Army spokesperson Col. Sunset Belinsky said in a statement Monday.
UPDATE: It is located within a few blocks of my last home in Birmingham, but I never knew "Rucker Place" is where the "Rucker" of "Fort Rucker" lived after the war. The "Historic Rucker House" has been a wedding venue since 2002. Interestingly, the website "History" section for the house describes it as having been a "private residence", but never explains the Rucker who lived there was a confederate officer who fought against The United States in the War:
"History
Rucker Place is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1900, Rucker Place served as a family home for the first half of the twentieth century. It then saw several decades of duty as a doctor's office. Today it is one of Birmingham's premier wedding and event destinations."
It is a beautiful house.
ADDED: You know the rabbit holes you can fall into online? HERE is a letter Rucker wrote in 1905 from his Birmingham home to a fellow confederate veteran in Montgomery. He does not mention the house, but briefly talks about slavery.
ADDED: You know the rabbit holes you can fall into online? HERE is a letter Rucker wrote in 1905 from his Birmingham home to a fellow confederate veteran in Montgomery. He does not mention the house, but briefly talks about slavery.
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