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Friday, February 28, 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently renamed Fort Liberty, North Carolina, choosing the name Fort Bragg. Not that Bragg, though.

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... The base had long been called Fort Bragg in honor of a Confederate general, but it was changed in 2023 following a congressional mandate to reconsider names tied to leaders of a military that had taken up arms against its own country. Hegseth, in a bit of a sleight of hand, chose another Bragg for the renaming, this time World War II hero Pvt. 1st Class Roland L. Bragg.

The removal of Confederate names from Army bases was criticized by President Donald Trump and the GOP, who cited it as a waste of money and an erasing of tradition. Today, the GOP is also spending taxpayer dollars to erase traditions, but this time it is taking aim at diversity, equity and inclusion.

"I used to walk past my great-great-grandfather's picture all the time," said Denise Rucker Krepp, a cousin of Confederate Col. Edmund Winchester Rucker who had several family members who fought in the Civil War. "And I was always just puzzled that a guy who fought for the Confederacy and helped lead the Confederacy was hanging in the Capitol."

She and other Rucker family members worked to remove their family's name from Army bases and congressional halls. Trump has promised to undo her work. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-26 09:45 PM | Reply

He can try, but he'll die

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-26 10:38 PM | Reply

One of the very first questions I asked Seidule about his work on the Renaming Commission, was about the message it sent. His answer also applies to what is happening in DoDEA. "This is not removing historyIt's removing commemoration. And who we commemorate reflects our values," he said.

#3 | Posted by homerj at 2025-02-27 08:07 PM | Reply

I wonder if Project 1776 has anything about Checks and Balances in it...
It does! The term "checks and balances" appears four times!

And [The Founders]
believed that strong states, as competing power centers,
would act as counterweights against a potentially
overweening central government
, in the same way that
the separation of powers checks and balances the
branches of the federal government.

This shadow government
never faces elections and today operates largely without
checks and balances. The founders always opposed
government unaccountable to the people and without
constitutional restraint, yet it continues to grow around
us.

Through the separation of powers and the system
of checks and balances, American constitutionalism
prevents any one group from having complete control of the
government.

Students should learn the reasons why our constitutional
order is structured as a representative democracy and why
a constitutional republic includes such features as the
separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism
.

trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-02-28 11:19 AM | Reply

Bragging rights trump liberty :/

#5 | Posted by Futility at 2025-02-28 11:29 AM | Reply

Bort ----, more like it.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-28 07:40 PM | Reply

He's doing a bang-up job of mangling the present and destroying the future while he's at it.

#7 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-28 10:25 PM | Reply

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