Five Women Veterans Who Deserve to Have Army Bases Named After Them

[ornotna]

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The U.S. Army has 10 installations named after Confederate generals. Zero are named after women

Should the U.S. military remove the names of Confederate generals from its Army bases in the South? The longstanding debate was recently revived by demonstrations against police brutality—and just as quickly quashed by President Donald Trump, who refused to consider the idea despite reports military officials were open to the move.

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. Good choices, but I'm still waiting for Hedy Lamarr to have a Navy base named after her...

or at least destroyer.

She was a lot more than a foil for Bob Hope.

[ornotna]

4. That is a good choice

USS Hedy Lamarr, perfect.

[Kingofalldems]

10. You're confusing her with Dorothy Lamour I think.

But she does deserve at least a ship named after her.

[LastDemocratInSC]

2. Admiral Grace Hopper

[CTyankee]

3. Yes. She has a college named after her at Yale. It was formerly named for John C. Calhoun who

infamously supported slavery. He was a graduate of Yale College.

Grace Hopper received her Ph.D from Yale.

New stained glass windows will be installed at Hopper College. They are being designed by African American artist Faith Ringgold.

[rickford66]

5. Why not at least list the names ?

Some of us have computers and ISP's which aren't friendly to some data-busy websites.

[ornotna]

6. Done

[rickford66]

11. Well done. Thanks.

[Staph]

7. How about Mary Walker?

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Edwards_Walker):

Mary Edwards Walker, M.D. (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919), commonly referred to as Dr. Mary Walker, was an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war and surgeon. She is the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor.

In 1855, she earned her medical degree at Syracuse Medical College in New York, married and started a medical practice. She volunteered with the Union Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War and served as a surgeon at a temporary hospital in Washington, D.C., even though at the time women and sectarian physicians were considered unfit for the Union Army Examining Board. She was captured by Confederate forces after crossing enemy lines to treat wounded civilians and arrested as a spy. She was sent as a prisoner of war to Richmond, Virginia until released in a prisoner exchange.

After the war, she was approved for the Medal of Honor, for her efforts to treat the wounded during the Civil War. Notably, the award was not expressly given for gallantry in action at that time, and in fact was the only military decoration during the Civil War. Walker is the only woman to receive the medal and one of only eight civilians to receive it. Her name was deleted from the Army Medal of Honor Roll in 1917 (along with over 900 other, male MOH recipients); however, it was restored in 1977. After the war, she was a writer and lecturer supporting the women's suffrage movement until her death in 1919.

[ornotna]

9. Excellent choice

Better than a Confederate traitor.

[Reader Rabbit]

8. Deborah Sampson?

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/deborah-sampson

[ornotna]

12. Another good candidate.