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These 87 Names Could Replace Those with Confederate Ties for Army Bases Like Fort Bragg

The list has the most famous military names such as Colin Powell and Audie Murphy, as well as D-Day field commander Gen. Omar Bradley and Dwight Eisenhower, World War II supreme Allied commander in Europe turned president.

But the 100 names settled on Thursday by a commission appointed to scrub Confederate names — and a long legacy of racism and slavery — from nine Army bases also include Alwyn Cashe, the Black Iraq war hero who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in December.

The escaped slave Harriet Tubman, who was a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad and a spy for the Union, and Union 1st Sgt. Powhatan Beaty, who escaped slavery and fought the South in the Civil War, could also soon have their names on one of the largest military bases in the U.S., such as Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which was named in 1918 for Gen. Braxton Bragg, who fought for the Confederacy.

The Naming Commission released its list for Army installations and is slated to hand over a final plan to Congress by October to re-name Fort Bragg; Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Rucker, Alabama; Fort Polk, Louisiana; Fort Benning and Fort Gordon in Georgia; and Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Lee and Fort Pickett in Virginia.

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2 thoughts on “These 87 Names Could Replace Those with Confederate Ties for Army Bases Like Fort Bragg”

  1. If I could change the past and everything connected to our true history, I would change the name Democrat Party to Traitor Party. This one party has brought out the worst in our history from starting slavery to continuing slavery in another form today.

  2. Change always comes with a steep cost.
    Cha cha cha CHA CHING!!!!!!!!!

    Waste of money to help people FEEL better about themselves.
    Get a damn job, produce in society first and then lets discuss your feelings again!

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