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Feb. 12, 2021 | By Brian W. Everstine Defense Department and congressional leaders on Feb. 12 announced eight appointees to the bipartisan commission tasked with renaming military bases that bear the monikers of Confederate leaders. Congress, in the fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, called on the Pentagon to begin the process of removing homages to Confederate leaders, like Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Hood, Texas. … Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III announced his picks for the commission include retired Adm. Michelle Howard, the Navy’s first Black and female admiral; form...

For over seventy years, Marine Corps misidentified two men who raised the first flag on Iwo Jima. Here's What You Need to Know: The second flag raising, in which Marines replaced the first flag with a much larger one, would be the one immortalized forever by war photographer Joe Rosenthal’s famous picture. The Marine Corps announced on August 24, 2016 that it revised the identification of two of the men who raised the first flag on Iwo Jima. Marine Corps commandant General Robert B. Neller stated in an address on the revelation: “Our history is important, and we owe it to our Marines ...