A congressional commission is recommending renaming facilities and removing depictions dedicated to Robert E. Lee and other Confederacy leaders at West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy.
for Army bases stretching from Texas to Virginia that honor Confederate officers.
That includes Lee Barracks, where cadets are housed, a day care center, a road, a gate and a portrait that hangs in Jefferson Hall of Lee wearing his Confederate uniform.that the famous portrait would be singled out by the bipartisan commission for removal. “Rather, they make these recommendations to affirm West Point’s long tradition of educating future generations of America’s military leaders to represent the best of our national ideals,” it adds.
At the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., the commission calls for renaming Buchanan House, the superintendent’s quarters honoring Adm. Frank Buchanan, a leader of the Confederate Navy, as well as an engineering building named for Cmdr. Matthew Maury, an astronomer and a Confederate naval officer.
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