{"id":49517,"date":"2023-06-02T15:46:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T15:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/06\/02\/fort-bragg-officially-renamed-fort-liberty\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:56:29","slug":"fort-bragg-officially-renamed-fort-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2023\/06\/02\/fort-bragg-officially-renamed-fort-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Bragg officially renamed Fort Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FORT LIBERTY, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake Friday to become Fort Liberty in a ceremony some veterans said was a small but important step in making the U.S. Army more welcoming to current and prospective Black service members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The change was part of a broad Department of Defense&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-carolina-government-and-politics-2c635453129124a462ea79691e634ce9\">initiative<\/a>, motivated by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/death-of-george-floyd\">2020 George Floyd protests<\/a>, to rename military installations that had been named after confederate soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Black Lives Matter demonstrations that erupted nationwide after Floyd\u2019s killing by a white police officer, coupled with ongoing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-lifestyle-ar-state-wire-courts-805877a5a480f49033ab8c726f5a7531\">efforts to remove Confederate monuments<\/a>, turned the spotlight on the Army installations. A naming commission created by Congress visited the bases and met with members of the surrounding communities for input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe were given a mission, we accomplished that mission and we made ourselves better,\u201d Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue, the commanding general of the XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Liberty, told reporters after the ceremony that made the name change official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While other bases are being renamed for Black soldiers, U.S. presidents and trailblazing women, the North Carolina military installation is the only one not renamed after a person. Retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule said at a commission meeting last year that the new name was chosen because \u201cliberty remains the greatest American value.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFayetteville in 1775 signed one of the first accords declaring our willingness to fight for liberty and freedom from Great Britain,\u201d said Donahue, referring to the city adjacent to the base. \u201cLiberty has always been ingrained in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cost to rename Fort Bragg \u2014 one of the largest military installations in the world by population \u2014 will total about $8 million, Col. John Wilcox said Friday. Most front-facing signage has been changed but the process is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe name changes, the mission does not change,\u201d base spokesperson Cheryle Rivas said Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2023\/05\/12\/halfway-through-base-name-changes-business-as-usual-across-the-army\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/moore.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Halfway through base name changes, business as usual across the Army<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Army crossed the halfway mark in the final phase of shedding its Confederate base names when Georgia\u2019s Fort Benning was rechristened Fort Moore.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fort Polk in Louisiana will be the next installation to change its name June 13 to Fort Johnson, in honor of Sgt. William Henry Johnson. The naming commission\u2019s proposed changes must be implemented by Jan. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The North Carolina base was originally named in 1918 for Gen. Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general from Warrenton, North Carolina, who was known for owning slaves and losing key Civil War battles that contributed to the Confederacy\u2019s downfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several military bases were named after Confederate soldiers during World War I and World War II as part of a \u201cdemonstration of reconciliation\u201d with white southerners amid a broader effort to rally the nation to fight as one, said Nina Silber, a historian at Boston University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was kind of a gesture of, \u2018Yes, we acknowledge your patriotism,\u2019 which is kind of absurd to acknowledge the patriotism of people who rebelled against a country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original naming process involved members of local communities, although Black residents were left out of the conversations. 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Bragg is widely regarded among historians as a poor leader who did not have the respect of his troops, Silber said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Isiah James, senior policy officer at the Black Veterans Project, the base renamings are a \u201clong overdue\u201d change he hopes will lead to more substantial improvements for Black service members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAmerica should not have vestiges of slavery and secessionism and celebrate them,\u201d he said. \u201cWe should not laud them and hold them up and venerate them to where every time a Black soldier goes onto the base, they get the message that this base Bragg is named after someone who wanted to keep you as human property.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At last week\u2019s \u201cAll American Week,\u201d a celebration of the 82nd Airborne Division and one of the last major events under the Fort Bragg name, several veterans expressed mixed feelings about the name change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gregory Patterson, 64, a former member of the 82nd Airborne, who served in the Army from 1977 to 1999, joined scores of veterans for the celebration. Patterson said he understood why they changed the name, but in his mind, the name is associated with the place, not the person \u2014 and specifically as the home of the 82nd Airborne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m still gonna call it Bragg, even though the person that they named it after wasn\u2019t a good person,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark Melancon, 63, who served from 1983 to 1990, wore a t-shirt that read \u201cBorn at Benning, Raised at Bragg.\u201d Fort Benning, in Georgia, was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/army-fort-benning-name-change-moore-e225aee0e687d3ef6a655ab7ea1e079e\">renamed<\/a>&nbsp;Fort Moore last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked about the change to Fort Liberty, Melancon replied: \u201cWe\u2019re not thrilled about that. 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