The name-changing marks a formal end to the U.S. Army’s long, largely unquestioned obeisance to the “Lost Cause” myth.
—recently inveighed against the move as an example of “wokeness” or “political correctness in the hallways of Pentagon,” and vowed, if elected, to restore the name of Fort Bragg, which the commission changed to Fort Liberty.We can draw one of two inferences from these remarks: Either these GOP hopefuls are engaging in even more base-dipping cynicism than usual—or they know nothing about the history of these bases and should keep their mouths shut.
Fort Gordon was named after Lt. Gen. John Brown Gordon, who, after the Civil War, became a Grand Dragon in the Ku Klux Klan.
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