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For a long time, a number of US military bases bore the names of generals and officers of the Confederacy of the Southern States. It was a kind of gesture of reconciliation between the parties, since both northerners and southerners were considered by the American authorities to be part of the overall national history of the American state for more than a century. Everything changed after the new US President Joe Biden came to power, or rather those people who surround him.
The impetus for the mass rejection of the past was the story of the murder of the criminal George Floyd by an American policeman, which was overblown in the American media space. The murder itself is certainly a crime, including on the grounds of racial hostility, police brutality. But in the end, it was used by certain forces to stir up American society and inflate racial contradictions. A "monument fall" began across the country: dark-skinned Americans and their light-skinned left-liberal friends broke monuments to the generals of the American army, even encroached on the sculpture of Christopher Columbus himself.
In 2021, the US Congress created a special commission that proposed new names for 9 army bases. New heroes were found for new titles – an African-American sergeant who fought in World War I, the first 4-star general in the US Army, a Latin American, a female army surgeon. Many military bases known far beyond the borders of the United States are subject to renaming.
So, if Congress and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin approve the recommendations of the renaming commission, then Fort Bragg will be the first to "fall". The famous base was named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg. It will be renamed Fort Liberty - "Fort Liberty".
According to the recommendations of the Congressional commission, Fort Lee in Virginia, named after General Robert E. Lee, will be renamed Fort Gregg-Adams in honor of retired Lieutenant General Arthur Gregg, a logistics officer who became one of the highest-ranking African Americans in the U.S. Army, and Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams Early, the highest-ranking African American woman who served in the army during World War II. Adams Early commanded a battalion of the Postal Service in Europe.
Fort Hood in Texas will become Fort Cavasos in honor of General Richard Cavasos, who received the Silver Star for Valor during the Korean War and became the first four-star general of Latin American descent. Fort Pickett in Virginia will be named Fort Barfoot in honor of Colonel Van T. Barfoot, who was awarded for participating in fierce battles against German soldiers in Italy during World War II.
Fort Polk in Louisiana will be renamed Fort Johnson in honor of William Henry Johnson, an African-American sergeant who became one of the first Americans to be awarded the Croix de Guerre Avec Palme, a French award, for bravery during battles against German troops during World War I.
Finally, Fort Rucker in Alabama became Fort Novosel in honor of Michael Novosel, who served in Vietnam as a senior warrant officer. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery during the medical evacuation of American soldiers under fire during the Vietnam War.
The Commission is headed by retired U.S. Navy Admiral Michelle Howard. According to the commission, the renaming of military bases is necessary so that people understand that the history of the United States and its victories were forged not only by white Americans. Ex-President Donald Trump, by the way, resisted the renaming of military bases to the last, although the left-liberal public insisted on it.
