Senate measure would strip Confederate names from Pentagon facilities
Tom Vanden Brook and Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY
Published 8:09 p.m. ET June 11, 2020 | Updated 8:10 p.m. ET June 11, 2020
WASHINGTON – The names of Confederate generals would be stripped from bases, building, planes, ships and even streets within three years under a sweeping amendment approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee that represents a direct challenge to President Donald Trump's assertion that the names would remain.
A committee would be established under the measure, described Thursday to USA TODAY by Senate aides familiar with the amendment, to identify military assets that bear names honoring the Confederacy. The aides were not authorized to offer details of the measure publicly ...
Top on the list would be 10 Army forts across the South that bear the names of Confederate generals, including the sprawling bases of Fort Bragg in North Carolina, and Fort Hood in Texas. But the measure would likely affect other services as well. The Navy, for example, has a guided-missile cruiser, the USS Chancelorsville, that celebrates a Confederate victory in the Civil War.
And its scope would also require removal of Confederate names from streets and facilities. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has buildings named for Gen. Robert E. Lee, who once was superintendent of the school ...
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