{"id":11151,"date":"2025-03-07T14:46:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/fort-liberty-set-to-be-renamed-fort-bragg-fulfilling-a-trump-promise\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T14:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:46:36","slug":"fort-liberty-set-to-be-renamed-fort-bragg-fulfilling-a-trump-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/fort-liberty-set-to-be-renamed-fort-bragg-fulfilling-a-trump-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Liberty Set to Be Renamed Fort Bragg, Fulfilling a Trump Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration will officially reinstate the name of an Army base in North Carolina on Friday to Fort Bragg, which was originally named for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/02\/us\/politics\/army-base-names-south-confederates.html#:~:text=(-,Fort%20Bragg,-%2C%20N.C.)\" title=\"\">an incompetent Confederate general<\/a> who owned enslaved people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The base\u2019s name was changed to Fort Liberty in June 2023 as part of the U.S. military\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/24\/us\/politics\/army-bases-confederate-names.html\" title=\"\">examination of its history<\/a> with race. But <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/04\/us\/politics\/trump-town-hall-promises-veterans.html\" title=\"\">President Trump<\/a> campaigned on a promise to restore the old name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The official ceremony at the military base on Friday will cement a political victory for Mr. Trump, who suffered a legislative defeat in 2020 when Congress <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/28\/us\/politics\/house-overrides-trump-veto-military-bill.html\" title=\"\">pushed past his veto<\/a> of a bill with a provision to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/20\/us\/politics\/congress-trump-confederate-base-names.html\" title=\"\">rename nine Army bases<\/a> that had honored treasonous Confederate generals who fought against the United States to preserve slavery and white supremacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The original naming of those bases was part of a movement to glorify the Confederacy and advance the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Lost-Cause\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lost Cause myth<\/a> that the Civil War was fought over \u201cstates\u2019 rights\u201d and not slavery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The reversion of Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg is part of a larger effort by Mr. Trump to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-fires-cq-brown-pentagon.html\" title=\"\">purge the military of top officers<\/a>, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/us\/politics\/pete-hegseth-dei-trump.html\" title=\"\">diversity initiatives<\/a>, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/27\/us\/transgender-military-ban-trump-hegseth.html\" title=\"\">transgender service members<\/a> and other things that he said had made the armed forces \u201cwoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A commission established by Congress to rename the bases, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/home.army.mil\/walker\/5417\/3151\/8858\/Naming_Commission_Final_Report_Part_I.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">composed of retired military officers and a Republican congressman<\/a>, chose to rename eight of the nine bases for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/04\/us\/politics\/army-bases-confederate-names.html\" title=\"\">some of the Army\u2019s most distinguished heroes<\/a>, noting that many of the hundreds of candidates being considered <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/home.army.mil\/walker\/5417\/3151\/8858\/Naming_Commission_Final_Report_Part_I.pdf#page=16\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cembody the best of the United States Army\u201d<\/a> and \u201crepresent the diverse kinds of servicemen that have long made our Army great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe were reminded that courage has no boundaries by categories of race, color, gender, religion, or creed,\u201d the retired <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/12\/us\/12admiral.html\" title=\"\">Adm. Michelle J. Howard,<\/a> the chair of the commission and the first woman in the Navy to become a four-star admiral, wrote at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Unlike the other eight bases, Fort Bragg was renamed \u201cin commemoration of the American value of liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The 2020 law \u2014 the only legislation that Congress passed by overriding Mr. Trump\u2019s veto during his first term \u2014 established the naming commission and mandated that the military \u201cremove all names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate\u201d Confederates or the Confederacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Trump, who has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/15\/arts\/design\/trump-robert-e-lee-george-washington-thomas-jefferson.html\" title=\"\">repeatedly defended monuments honoring Confederates<\/a>, had vowed during the 2024 campaign to revert the name to honor Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general who was widely considered by his fellow Confederates and many historians to have been a poor commander. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Vice President JD Vance had also falsely claimed while campaigning near the base last year that Vice President Kamala Harris had directed the changing of the name of the base to Fort Liberty during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s Fort Bragg, and we\u2019re proud,\u201d Mr. Vance said in Raeford, N.C., in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/10\/us\/politics\/hegseth-fort-liberty-bragg.html\" title=\"\">designated the base for another Bragg<\/a>: Pvt. Roland L. Bragg, who had served at Fort Bragg and was awarded a Silver Star and the Purple Heart during World War II.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Monday, Mr. Hegseth <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/benning-bragg-confederate-names-bases-military-a117d5152fdedeb8852770276f5acdab\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">expanded the renaming effort<\/a>, reverting Fort Moore \u2014 renamed in 2023 for Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and his wife, Julia \u2014 to Fort Benning, which was originally named for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/02\/us\/politics\/army-base-names-south-confederates.html#:~:text=Alamy-,Henry%20L.%20Benning,-(Fort%20Benning%2C%20Ga\" title=\"\">Henry L. Benning<\/a>, a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/secession.richmond.edu\/v1\/90#:~:text=By%20the%20time%20the%20North%20shall%20have%20attained%20the%20power%2C%20the%20black%20race%20will%20be%20in%20a%20large%20majority%2C%20and%20then%20we%20will%20have%20black%20governors%2C%20black%20legislatures%2C%20black%20juries%2C%20black%20everything.%20%5BLaughter.%5D\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">white supremacist<\/a> who pushed for Georgia to secede from the United States and fought for the Confederacy to prevent the abolition of slaves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Hegseth again selected an honoree who had the same name, saying that the base was being renamed for Cpl. Fred G. Benning, a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross who served during World War I.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The cost of renaming the nine Army bases was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/03\/24\/the-cost-to-rename-9-confederacy-honoring-army-bases-has-doubled\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">estimated at about $39 million<\/a>, covering expenses like replacing the signage and removing old references to the bases\u2019 outdated names. Reverting to the original would most likely also cost millions. Businesses and street signs near Fort Bragg in nearby Fayetteville, N.C., still referred to Fort Liberty on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/07\/us\/politics\/fort-liberty-renamed-bragg.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration will officially reinstate the name of an Army base in 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