I’m a Proud Army Veteran. We Should Remove Confederate Names From Army Posts.

Veterans have identified a number of heroes far more deserving of veneration than these Confederate icons

Wes O'Donnell
GEN
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6 min readJun 16, 2020

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The Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk in Louisiana. Photo: Mario Villafuerte/Getty Images

As both a soldier and an airman, I spent much of my time in the military at the “rebel forts” — the 10 U.S. Army posts that were named after Confederate…

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Wes O'Donnell
GEN
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Army & Air Force Veteran | Global Security guy at War is Boring, GEN, OneZero | Intel Forecaster | Law Student | TEDx Speaker | Pro-Democracy | Pro-Human Rights