Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake Friday to become Fort Liberty in a ceremony some veterans view as a small but important step in making the U.S. Army more welcoming to Black service members. The change is the most prominent in a broad Department of Defense initiative to rename military insta...
It's hard not to be political about this, but, totally not trying to be, it is intensely strange that "union" bases are/were named after the military they defeated.