“For a little breaking news, we are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett [in Virginia], Fort Hood [in Texas], Fort Gordon [in Georgia], Fort Rucker [in Alabama], Fort Polk [in Louisiana], Fort A.P. Hill [in Virginia] and Fort Robert E. Lee [also in Virginia],” Trump said in a speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina marking the US Army’s 250th anniversary. Biden initiated the renaming process in 2021 — in the wake of nationwide Black Lives Matter protests the prior year — by signing a bill that created a commission and a three-year timetable to drop tributes to men who led the slave states’ revolt between 1861 and 1865.
Author: Steven Nelson, Diana Glebova
Published at: 2025-06-10 20:53:57
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