Britt Towery, a retired Baptist Preacher and Missionary, recently (Fri. June 14, 2013) printed an article on naming public streets and buildings after prominent or said to be prominent people, that doing so should stop because later facts come to shed light on a flawed person.

Brownwood developers of new streets named one of the streets after the famous pilot, Lindberg, a German.  Later he made remarks in 1940 favoring Nazi’s.  The city council quickly changed the name to Corrigan, after a Notre Dame football player who ran to the other side’s goal line.  His public name became “Wrong – Way Corrigan.”

Towery made one untrue statement about the battle of 1861 – 1865.  He noted that the North called this struggle the Civil War, and the South called it “The War between the States,” not the “War of Northern Aggression.”

The truth is Lincoln promised not to invade the South.  The corporations wanted a war, used to make a profit.  Without Lincoln’s knowledge or permission, the corporations organized an Army commanded by General McDowell, invaded Virginia with the goal to occupy Richmond, Virginia.  The Southern spies sent a message to the Southern Military about the invasion.  A Southern Army ambushed the Northern Army at Bull Run, a place clearly in Virginia.  My family who lost three in the War, always called it the “War of Northern Aggression.”  And they were correct.

-Colonel George Day, Brownwood, Texas