US Army base Fort Bragg drops Confederate name for Fort Liberty

[rangerrebew]

US Army base Fort Bragg drops Confederate name for Fort Liberty
Posted Fri 2 Jun 2023 at 4:04pmFriday 2 Jun 2023 at 4:04pm, updated Fri 2 Jun 2023 at 4:11pmFriday 2 Jun 2023 at 4:11pm
Fort Liberty sign displayed outside the US Army base.
The name change is part of a broader initiative to remove Confederate names from US Army bases.
The Fort Bragg US military base in North Carolina has shed its Confederate title to become Fort Liberty in a ceremony some veterans say is a small but important step in making the army more welcoming to black service members.

Key points:
Fort Bragg was originally named after a Confederate general who was known for owning slaves
The cost of the renaming will total about $8 million
The proposed changes are to be implemented by January 1, 2024
The change was part of a broad Department of Defense initiative, motivated by the 2020 George Floyd protests, to rename military installations that had honoured Confederate soldiers.

The Black Lives Matter demonstrations that erupted nationwide after Mr Floyd's killing by a white police officer, coupled with ongoing efforts to remove Confederate monuments, turned the spotlight on the army installations.

 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-03/us-army-renames-fort-bragg-as-fort-liberty/102436308

[rangerrebew]

$8 million just to change the name.  Now there is money well spent.

[sneakypete]

@rangerrebew

"We iz da wurld......

We iz da peep-pulls...

Cmon and sang hit wid me,comrades!

[mountaineer]

Surely Bragg was "known for" more than owning slaves.

[Smokin Joe]

Surely Bragg was "known for" more than owning slaves.

No kidding!

[PeteS in CA]

$8 million just to change the name.  Now there is money well spent.

And multiplied by the number of bases named for Mexican-American War generals and officers who later served on the Confederate side of the Civil War. A civilian example would be the city of Fort Bragg, CA, named to honor his service in the Mex-Am War, through which California became a US Territory.

How many .50 BMG or 25 mm M242 shells could be bought with that $8M flushed on stationery, signage, software/database updates, and etc.?

[cato potatoe]

We can still call it Fort Bragg (and I think most of the locals will).

[sneakypete]

Surely Bragg was "known for" more than owning slaves.

@mountaineer

Ft.Bragg was the ONLY US Army base I was ever stationed at in the US,and I had no freaking idea what he was known for. I only had a vague recollection that someone claimed he was a Confederate General in the War of Independence.

Truth to tell,I had no real interest in knowing anything more about him. I had more important and relevant things to think about that someone who  had been probably been dead for 100 years.