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Changing the name to Fort Eisenhower honored a U.S. president who loved Augusta. The new honor goes to a sergeant who died in ...
President Donald Trump said 7 Army bases will revert to names that honored Confederates, now honoring other soldiers of the ...
Fort Hood was changed to Fort Cavazos in honor of Gen. Richard Cavazos, the Army’s first Hispanic four-star, who served in ...
After being known as Fort Eisenhower for less than 2 years, the Augusta military base will be known as Fort Gordon once again ...
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - About a year and a half after it became Fort Eisenhower, the local Army post became Fort Gordon again – and unlike the previous name change, this one happened overnight. The ...
The US Army said Tuesday it will restore the names of seven Army bases that previously honored Confederate leaders.
The move would reverse a yearslong effort to remove names and symbols honoring the Confederacy from the military.
To restore the original names of the additional seven bases, the Army again found service members with the same last names as the Confederates they were originally named for.
Service officials said the reverted base names will now have links to Army heroes instead of Confederate leaders.
In a historic moment for the school, Freed-Hardeman University’s spring 2025 commencement ceremony celebrated the first-ever ...