Thank goodness it's not a nigger.
Fort Benning, the massive U.S. Army training base near Columbus, Ga., will
be formally renamed Fort Moore on Thursday after Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and
his wife, Julia Moore.
Fort Benning and East Georgias Fort Gordon were identified by a
commission assigned to recommend new names for military installations
whose names were linked to the Confederacy. Fort Gordon will be renamed
for former President and five-star General Dwight Eisenhower later this
year. The official date has not been set.
Lt. Gen. Moore served in the Korean and Vietnam wars and coauthored the
bestselling book, We Were Soldiers Once...and Young. Julia Moore
supported military families back home during her husbands service. Both
are buried at Fort Benning.
A major U.S. Army training facility located just south of Columbus, Fort
Benning is home to the Maneuver Center of Excellence, which includes
Armys infantry and armor training schools, as well as training centers
for Army Rangers, office candidate school and an airborne school. It
serves about 70,000 soldiers and civilians annually, according to the base
web site, www.benning.army.mil
It began as Camp Benning in 1918, named for Henry Benning, a Confederate
general in the Civil War. The name change will be marked in a 9 a.m.
ceremony Thursday on the base at Doughboy Stadium. WTVM in Columbus will
offer a livestream of the event.
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