President Trump, during a speech in Fort Bragg, NC, said on Tuesday that he would restore the names of all the army bases mentioned For connected generals But were ordered by the congress changed in the decreasing days of his first administration.
His relocation runs the law that requires the removal of confederated symbols of the army by the same maneuver used to restore the name from Fort BraggThat was briefly renamed Fort Liberty. In a statement, the army said that “immediate action would take” to restore the old names of the bases that originally honor Confederates, but the basic names would instead honor other American soldiers with similar names and initials.
For example, Fort Eisenhower in Georgia, in honor of President Dwight D. Eisenhower – who led the D-Day landings During the Second World War the name Fort Gordon would return, Once in honor of John Brown GordonThe confederated slave owner and suspected KU Klux Klan member. This time, however, the army said that the basis would honor instead Master Sgt. Gary Gordonthat fought In the Battle of Mogadishu In Somalia.
Mr. Trump, however, contradicted that statement in his announcement, at one point and said that the army would ‘restore’ the name of one army base in Virginia – – – – – – Fort GREGG-ADAMS – to ‘Fort Robert E. Lee’, previously named after the commander of the southern army. The army said in its statement that the basis would be renamed to honor PVT. Fitz Lee, a member of the completely black Buffalo soldiers who was that crowned a honorary medal Serving in the Spanish-American war.
Mr. Trump made the announcement when he took a victory round for the reconstruction of the army installation in Fort Bragg, NC, originally named after Braxton Bragg, the southern general. Fort Bragg was renamed Fort Liberty after the congress had moved To strip the base Of the confederate name in 2020, making a new one mandatory.
“Can you believe that they have changed that name a little in the last administration?” Asked Mr. Trump, while soldiers stand out loudly in the crowd. “Fort Bragg is inside. That is the name. And Fort Bragg will always remain it. That will never happen again.”
By giving a speech in campaign style surrounded by hundreds of army troops, Mr Trump tried to run the page about what an embarrassing political defeat was in his first term. An overwhelming majority of congress – Democrats and Republicans – are over -roasted amidst the consequences of protests After the murder of George Floyd To assume a bill that included a provision To rename the nine army bases Connected generals.
Those bases were eventually renamed people who ’embody the best of the US Army’, said the name committee that recommended the first changes. They include decorated officers, recruited troops that survived harrowing processes in the fight, and a citizen: Dr. Mary Edwards WalkerA surgeon of the civil war and the only woman who has ever awarded an honorary medal.
One of the officers, Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley, was honored Because of the congress earlier this year, with speaker Mike Johnson who awarded a prize for the six Triple Eight-Its, all completely black, completely female army battalion that served in Europe during the Second World War on its descendants.
If Mr. Trump’s attempt to rename the base again is successful, all their names will be made.
The original naming of the nine army bases was part of a movement to glorify the Confederation and the Lost cause Myth That the civil war was fought on the rights of states and not slavery.
Mr. Trump and other conservatives had frantic against the name changes, they were completed According to the Biden government, the ‘waking’ claimed to mitigate the army and wipe out important elements of the American tradition and heritage. Mr. Trump, who repeatedly defended monuments in honor of southernPromised during the 2024 campaign to return the name Fort Bragg in honor of Braxton Bragg, who was generally considered by his fellow confederates and many historians to have been a poor commander.
Mr. Trump’s promise was flourished in March, but with a turn that seemed like a rewriting of history and an internet trol. Fort Liberty again became Fort Bragg, not in honor of the southern general but in memory of PVT. Roland L. Bragg, a rather obscure infantryman who had served in Fort Bragg and fought in the battle for the appearance during the Second World War.
Pete Hegseeth, the Minister of Defense, announced a similar change of name. Shortly thereafter it seemed intended to circumvent the law in honor of Confederates: Fort Moore – renamed in 2023 For Lieutenant -General Harold G. Moore and his wifeJulia – would be called again Fort Benning. Instead of honoring Henry L. Benninga confederated and White supremacistThe basis would be named after CPL. Fred G. Benning, who served during the First World War I.
Another change of name of the army on Tuesday seemed particularly tortured to fit the old name, while he still apparently honoring different soldiers: Fort Walker, named after the surgeon of the civil war, would be renamed Fort AP Hill. That basis was originally mentioned in honor of Ambrose Powell Hill, a confederated officer who was killed late in the war. The army said on Tuesday that the basis would be renamed “Fort Anderson-Pinn-Hill” to honor Lt. Col. Edward Hill” First sgt. Robert A. Pinn And PVT. Bruce Anderson They fought for the United States during the civil war.
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