Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum Monday renaming “Fort Liberty,” North Carolina, Fort Bragg.
Bragg is back! I just signed a memorandum reversing the naming of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. pic.twitter.com/EGgZNHK72x
— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) February 11, 2025
The name change is one of the bits of cultural fallout from the George Floyd Memorial Summer of Peace, which, in retrospect, may have been the High Water Mark of the DEI Movement (just in case you didn’t catch the reference). Following the riots of 2020 and Joe Biden’s questionable election as president, the nation entered into an iconoclastic bacchanalia of destroying everything associated with the Confederacy and most things vaguely associated with slavery. Storied military installations like Fort Hood, Fort Benning, Fort Gordon, and Fort Bragg were renamed to mean nothing to the men and women who served there and seemed to have no other purpose than the destruction of history and tradition; see Revolution: To Fight Racial Injustice, the US Army Will Rename Nine Historic Bases – RedState. [Full disclosure: every male on the paternal and maternal sides of my family wore gray or butternut during the Civil War.]
On the one hand, I applaud the effort by Hegseth to undo the immense damage done to our Armed Forces by Lloyd Austin and the race-baiters and nincompoops he selected to lead the Defense Department. On the other hand, it was too cute by half.
BREAKING: Fort Bragg is officially back!! @SecDef @PeteHegseth signed a memorandum on Monday directing the renaming of Fort Liberty to Fort Roland L. Bragg.
From DOD: “The new name honors the heroic service of Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, a World War II veteran awarded the Silver… pic.twitter.com/sOyyAUViNJ
— Kristina Wong 🇺🇸 (@kristina_wong) February 11, 2025
In the final analysis, he did exactly the same thing that Austin and Biden did. He let the left have its way.
I don’t know anyone who is going to defend Braxton Bragg as a military commander. That man may exist, but I haven’t met him. And I’m sure PFC Roland L. Bragg was a stud. But that isn’t the point. If we were going to rename the installation to something that didn’t sound like the name of a stripper working the poles on Hay Street back when it was a combat zone, there were many more deserving guys…like anyone who was awarded the Medal of Honor. The whole purpose, as I understood it, was not to find another Bragg somewhere but to return the installation to its former name as a rejection of the leftist impulse to destroy history. Ultimately, they won.
What a joke. I can’t wait to see who they come up with to mirror Benning, Hood, Rucker, etc.
