Posted on Mar 18, 2022
These 87 Names Could Replace Those with Confederate Ties for Army Bases Like Fort Bragg
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Quite a lengthy list
These 87 Names Could Replace Those with Confederate Ties for Army Bases Like Fort Bragg
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PO1 Tony Holland
..."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 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."...
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Some of the names are great, some are meh - regardless I see a long future where the posts will be referenced as for example, " troops from Fort Ridgway formerly known as Fort Bragg were deployed..."
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