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'Deeply Negative Message': Relatives of Fort Gregg-Adams' Namesakes React to Trump Renaming

Military funeral honors for retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg

Relatives of the late Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams-Earley anticipated it, but when President Donald Trump announced their parents’ names would be stripped from the Virginia base, they were still surprised. Trump, in front of a crowd of Army soldiers Tuesday at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, said “for a little breaking […]

Trump Says All Army Bases Stripped of Confederate Namesakes Will Have Names Restored

President Trump delivers a speech at Fort Bragg

All Army installations that were renamed in recent years to sever ties with the Confederacy will have their original names restored, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday. “We won a lot of battles out of those forts. It’s no time to change, and I’m superstitious — we want to keep it going,” Trump told a crowd […]