Over the weekend I watched Gettysburg, the 1993 Civil War epic film about the Battle of Gettysburg. It’s one of my most favorite historical films, although at more than four hours long it’s really not one I can afford enough time to watch often. But for some reason or another I felt led to see it again.
Maybe I sensed that I was needing to watch it anew. That the time was coming soon to bring it up in conversation. That opportunity comes tonight, after reading how President Donald Trump is restoring the name of seven military bases back to their original names that honored Confederate officers from the Civil War. The bases had been re-named by the Biden administration to be more “neutral” or “politically correct”. The venerated Fort Bragg became the vacuous-sounding “Fort Liberty”, f’rinstance.
Now, to be accurate about it, the Trump Administration is not ...