What’s in a name? For many who served at Fort Bragg, set to be renamed “Fort Liberty” on Friday, the legendary Army installation is the central gravitational force around which their military careers and even their families have revolved.
because that’s our home. It’s not going to be Fort Liberty forever in our hearts, in our minds,” Mr. Talbot said. “I had tears in my eyes [as crews were] taking the signs down on Bragg Boulevard.”
“Here’s what I do know: Change is constant,” said Lt. Gen. Chris Donahue, commanding general of the 18th Airborne Corps., here’s the one thing I do know: They don’t want to hear about the past. They want to hear about the future,” he told The Times this week after being asked whether the redesignation was bittersweet for him and the men and women under his command.
Mr. Trump, an outspoken opponent of the redesignations, vetoed an annual defense spending bill that established the commission, but a bipartisan majority in both chambers of Congress overrode his veto.
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