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Back to monuments.
Most folks think of statuary when they consider Confederate monuments, but they're all around us. Military bases such as Fort Hood and streets in Southern cities (the Mother Emanual Church in Charleston is on Calhoun Street). The Navy is no better, in 1959 the Navy started the construction of the "41 for Freedom," ICBM carrying submarines that served throughout the Cold War. The fourth submarine was the USS Robert E. Lee, which was built after George Washington, Patrick Henry, and Theodore Roosevelt. The Abraham Lincoln commissioned a year after the Lee. The Ulysses S. Grant was commissioned four years later immediately followed by the Stonewall Jackson. This was all during The Civil Rights Movement. The navy has submarine tenders which are ships that support submarines with repair shops and can also load ICBMs on the missile subs. We had them on both coasts plus Italy, Spain, Guam, and Scotland. The USS Hunley was named for the Confederate submarine and the USS Dixon was named for the captain of the Hunley. The cruiser Chancellorsville is named after Lee's greatest victory in the Civil War. The US commissioned the carrier USS John C. Stennis in 1995. Stennis was a senator from Mississippi who was a supporter of racial segregation and had signed the Southern Manifesto which was meant to resist the Brown v Board of Education decision. He also voted against the Civil Rights and Voting Acts. We named a national security asset after a self-professed racist.
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