An Underhanded Act of Renaming by Hegseth
“… Hegseth said the move to rename Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg was about restoring the legacy of the service members who trained and served there.”
This tale begins back in 2020, during Trump’s first term in the White House. Sen Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, in a very typical act of Yankee spite, introduced legislation to remove the names of Confederate heroes from any property owned by the federal government’s Dept of Defense. The provisions of that legislation migrated to a military funding bill, which Trump vetoed, but the foolish Republicans in the U.S. Senate joined with the Democrats and overrode it. The removal of those Confederate names began in 2023.
The woke DoD under Biden told the story this way:
‘Some Army bases, established in the build-up and during World War I, were named for Confederate officers in an effort to court support from local populations in the South. That the men for whom the bases were named had taken up arms against the government they had sworn to defend was seen by some as a sign of reconciliation between the North and South. It was also the height of the Jim Crow Laws in the South, so there was no consideration for the feelings of African Americans who had to serve at bases named after men who fought to defend slavery [on this misleading point, see the work of Kizer and Seabrook on black folks in the Confederate Army—W.G.].
‘All this changed in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in…
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