Washington Post "Cost of Removing confederate Items"

 

Statue of Jeff Davis at Alabama Capitol

 

"Removing the last vestiges of Confederate history from the U.S. military, including renaming nine Army posts, will cost more than $62 million, a congressional commission said Tuesday.

The cost was summarized by the group tasked with a sweeping audit of the Defense Department to identify, rename, modify or remove assets that commemorate the battlefield exploits of those who fought during the Civil War to preserve slavery. There are 1,100 such items across the military, the commission found."

FULL Washington Post story is HERE

In Alabama, the biggest change is to Fort Rucker, named after a confederate General who became a Birmingham businessman after the war.  There is also a restaurant named for Rucker in Birmingham, but there are not apparent plant to change that name.