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Fort Bragg is renamed Fort Liberty to honor the 'greatest American value' as in U.S. Army's most prominent move to erase Confederate names from bases
2023-06-03
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake to become Fort Liberty on Friday

  • Veterans hailed it a small but important step in making the U.S. Army more welcoming to current and prospective black service members

  • Not everyone agrees with the name change - at least one former service member described it as the 'pinnacle of wokery'

  • The change was motivated by the 2020 George Floyd protests to rename military installations that had been named after confederate soldiers
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Posted by:Skidmark

#14  I will say that the Infantry Museum at Bragg is first rate. Or at least was, the last time I was there. The Artillery Museum at Sill is also impressive.
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-06-03 21:29  

#13  They could name it Fort Fuckery for all I care. The military is being gutted with wokeness and until they actually get back to the job of breaking shit and killing people, I don't give a fuck.
Posted by: DarthVader   2023-06-03 17:07  

#12  B, I would add "obsequius" to that. The Dems are suffering compound fractures with all the kneeling and genuflecting.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2023-06-03 16:51  

#11  /\ .....ultimately is just a form of appeasement. Gratuitous changing of: names, academic standards, history, criminal statutes, affirmative-action, reparations, is just appeasement to "assuage" guilt for some and mollify "anger" and misbehavior by others.

Exactly corret. Little more than boot licking and pandering.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-06-03 13:30  

#10  Like so much else in the woke panoply, this ultimately is just a form of appeasement. Gratuitous changing of: names, academic standards, history, criminal statutes, affirmative-action, reparations, is just appeasement to "assuage" guilt for some and mollify "anger" and misbehavior by others. In all of history, appeasement, like Dane gelt or tribute, just buys momentary pauses followed by more blackmail, because it worked!
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-06-03 12:19  

#9  Nathan Bedford Forrest threatened to kill him after the battle at Chickamauga Creek.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2023-06-03 11:53  

#8  ...not to mention appealing to the vast number of southern boys they shipped out to die 1917-2020.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-06-03 10:24  

#7  These base names were used as an olive branch by the army post civil war to sweeten the fact that they were going to station large numbers of troops in formerly hostile territory. Evidently we're not doing 'reconciliation' any more.
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-06-03 10:03  

#6  Fort Liberty. What a gawd damn joke for multiple reasons.

Thoughts of the "Patriot Act" come to mind suddenly. I wonder why....
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-06-03 09:30  

#5  Exactly Proco. If you surveyed the men who served under Bragg in the Army of Tennessee the vast majority would agree with changing the name from Fort Bragg.
Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert    2023-06-03 08:19  

#4  Foul. Braxton Bragg by his actions contributed more to the success of the Union forces than a host of Union generals.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-06-03 08:05  

#3  Fort Babbitt
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-06-03 07:55  

#2  I was actually holding out for Fort MLK.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-06-03 07:31  

#1  There's a WNBA team named the Liberty - just sayin'.
Posted by: Raj   2023-06-03 01:23  

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