Confederacy Loses a Fort (Name). Eight more to come.

 From The N.Y. Times:

"On Friday, Fort Pickett will become Fort Barfoot, in honor of Col. Van Barfoot, a World War II hero and a Medal of Honor recipient.

The ceremony will be the culmination of a yearslong effort to purge the symbols of the Confederacy from the military. The nine Army bases were originally named for Confederates during the Jim Crow era as part of a national movement to glorify the Confederacy and advance the Lost Cause myth that the Civil War was fought over “states’ rights” and not slavery."

 

It is the first of nine bases being renamed, including Alabama's Fort Rucker.

 

FULL Times story is HERE