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Originally posted by 12131:
It's the same last name, but the person being honored is no longer the Confederate general Braxton Bragg, but it's Roland Bragg, a WWII hero.

Until the controversy, I never knew that Ft Bragg or Ft Benning were named after Confederate generals. I like this solution. The name is returned to the familiar, but pays tribute to a uniting figure.

I am a Southerner, and can trace back to ancestors that fought and died for the CSA, but I don't think it is proper to offer tribute to leaders of what was a foreign nation in the naming of a US military base.

Maybe I am wrong to look at it this way, and my SF brothers here can set me straight.

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