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Natalie Wanda “Bunny” Bragg was born on December 1, 1961. She was the Oldest of three children born to Constance and Edward Bragg Sr. On November 2, 2023…

A federal commission is soliciting ideas to rename Fort Bragg, Fort Hood, Fort Rucker, Fort Lee, and several other military posts named for Confederate officers.

A federal commission is soliciting ideas to rename Fort Bragg, Fort Hood, Fort Rucker, Fort Lee, and several other military posts named for Confederate officers.

The commission charged with recommending new names for bases is meeting with leaders in military towns and has presented an interim report to Congress.

A federal commission is soliciting ideas to rename Fort Bragg, Fort Hood, Fort Rucker, Fort Lee and several other military posts named for Confederate officers.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- Braxton Bragg was an ill-tempered, largely failed Confederate general from a slave-owning family whose history has been omitted from the training curriculum for troops on the installation that bears his name. But many service members and residents of the adjacent town have learned all about him in recent months.

Pentagon leaders began looking at stripping bases of Confederate-linked names last year amid a nationwide racial reckoning after the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. Then-President Donald Trump vetoed the law, objecting to the renaming commission, but Congress overrode his veto.

The commission charged with recommending new names for bases is meeting with leaders in military towns and has presented an interim report to Congress.

Congress mandated renaming military bases that commemorate Confederate leaders. The communities around them are now weighing in.