Letter: Don't waste money changing name of Fort Bragg and other bases; feed people first

So let me get this straight: Our government is going to spend millions changing the names of military bases around the country and removing statues because they offend people.

I’ll get behind this movement when the following issue has been addressed. Just here in North Carolina, these are the numbers according to Feeding America website:

In North Carolina, 1,417,440 people are facing hunger — and of them 419,470 are children. People facing hunger in North Carolina are estimated to report needing $724,977,000 more per year to meet their food needs.  

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Let’s get these people fed and then we can (throw) away millions of dollars on people’s feelings. I don’t think that the name Fort Bragg or any statue of a Confederate soldier has ever killed anyone or has caused some sort of mental breakdown.

Truth be known a large percentage of people couldn’t tell you who Gen. Braxton Bragg was from a hole in the ground. How about we tell everyone that it’s named after Janet Bragg. She covers a lot of bases for the woke crowd … she’s a woman and she’s Black, with some Cherokee ancestry.  

Where does this foolishness stop? Maybe the Coliseum in Rome should be bulldozed since some of my Christian family members were fed to the lions. You see how foolish this is; and we could keep going through history removing things that point to the past.  

A quote from George Santayana: “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Glenn Seeley, Spring Lake

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