Conservatives are celebrating the famous United States military installation Fort Bragg in North Carolina being “renamed” by the Donald Trump administration after the Biden White House changed the name to “Fort Liberty” amid backlash against anything named after members of the Confederacy.
In reality, the victory is not exactly the win that is being portrayed.
The fort was originally named in 1918 after West Point graduate Braxton Bragg, who was a veteran of the Second Seminole War, Mexican–American War, and American Civil War where he served as a general in the Confederate Army.
In 2021, the U.S. Senate created a commission to select new names for DOD properties named in honor of Confederate leaders, and renamed Bragg to Fort Liberty in 2022.
On Monday, the Trump administration revealed the Biden-era name change would be revoked and the fort would return to its original name.
“Bragg is back! I just signed a memorandum reversing the naming of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg,” Trump Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wrote on 𝕏.
However, the new Fort Bragg is NOT named after General Braxton Bragg and is instead named after Private First Class Roland Bragg who served at the fort and fought in WWII.
Roland Bragg served with the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 17th Airborne Division during WWII, receiving a Silver Star and a Purple Heart after being wounded while fighting in the famous Battle of the Bulge.
An 𝕏 account commemorating Confederate President Jefferson Davis pointed out the name change was a “trick” similar to when Washington’s King County kept its name but changed the namesake in 1985 to honor Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. instead of its original namesake, 13th Vice President of the United States William Rufus DeVane King.
It’s disheartening that the conservative Trump administration is apparently still bowing to the leftist mob by refusing to honor anyone associated with the Confederacy.
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