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The military gets its first look at which bases should be renamed for heroes that don't include ties to the Confederacy or Jim Crow-era past.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Congressionally mandated commission announced on Tuesday its recommendations for changes to the names of nine U.S. Army bases that
Army leaders fighting over glory, not racism, drove the choice of “Liberty,” source says.
What was initially more than 34,000 submissions for the panel to consider got whittled down to 3,670 to a final list of 87 potential names for the nine installations.
New suggestions include renaming Fort Lee, named after Robert E. Lee, as Fort Gregg-Adams, after two Black army veterans.