Even for a pair of contenders desperately trying to defeat front-runner Donald Trump, while also pandering to his supporters, rolling back on the renaming of U.S. military bases this year is a dubious cause, writes Charles Lane in Opinions.
was the bill’s “politically motivated attempts ... to wash away history." Both houses of Congress promptly overrode his veto by more than the requisite two-thirds margin.
The legislation created the eight-member Naming Commission, which sought input across the country, including in communities near the affected bases. The commission was composed of both Democrats and Republicans. Among the latter was Rep. Austin Scott , who sits on the House Armed Services Committee. Scott supported the committee’sThe other eight bases will henceforth bear names of military heroes who fought for the United States. For example, Louisiana’s Fort Polk, named for Confederate Gen.
There’s no denying Fort Bragg was an “iconic name,” as DeSantis said, with a nice ring to it — even a pun on the swagger of warriors who train there. Understandable, too, is the attachment of veterans to a name that, whatever its historical significance, belongs to their personal biographies.:"It’s always gonna be Bragg, the way we look at it.”
For all that, it would be difficult to imagine a less worthy honoree than Fort Liberty’s now former namesake, North Carolina enslaver , a West Point graduate who did serve the United States in the Mexican War but later betrayed his country and commanded troops — not very well, by most accounts — for the Confederacy.
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