In the words of VoteVets.org:

The Marines have officially ordered the removal of all Confederate symbols and flags in public areas.

Today, we’re renewing our calls for the Army, Navy, and Air Force to do the same and requesting the Army rename 10 bases that bear the name of Confederate generals.

As hundreds of thousands of people across the country take to the streets to demand justice for Black Americans, the Army, Navy, and Air Force must take the important step to remove these symbols of hate. Add your name if you agree.

This isn’t about history – it’s about keeping symbols of hate out of our nation’s military. Soldiers of the Confederacy have a place in books, museums, and other educational centers that can properly teach – not honor – what they fought a war against the United States of America for. 

Add your name to demand the Army, Navy, and Air Force follow the example of the Marines and remove all public displays of Confederate flags and symbols.

History Tells All

The Confederacy (Confederate States of America) was an unrecognized secessionist republic formed to preserve White Supremacy and the institution of slavery. In his Cornerstone Address, March 21, 1861, the Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens (1812–1883) laid out the doctrinal basis for their war against the U.S. government: 

[Par. 5] “… The prevailing ideas entertained by him [Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the Constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time. The Constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly used against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it-when the "storm came and the wind blew, it fell."

[Par. 6] "Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition. [Applause.] This, our new Government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science…" <FORDHAM UNIVERSITY>