Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum Monday renaming “Fort Liberty,” North Carolina, Fort Bragg.
Bragg is back! I just signed a memorandum reversing the naming of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. pic.twitter.com/EGgZNHK72x
— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) February 11, 2025
The name change is one of the bits of cultural fallout from the George Floyd Memorial Summer of Peace, which, in retrospect, may have been the High Water Mark of the DEI Movement (just in case you didn’t catch the reference). Following the riots of 2020 and Joe Biden’s questionable election as president, the nation entered into an iconoclastic bacchanalia of destroying everything associated with the Confederacy and most things vaguely associated with slavery. Storied military installations like Fort Hood, Fort Benning, Fort Gordon, and Fort Bragg were…