The names of nine U.S. Army bases named for confederate officers have now all been changed, including Fort Rucker in Alabama.
As a story in SLATE reports:
"The name-changing marks a formal end to the U.S. Army’s long, largely unquestioned obeisance to the “Lost Cause” myth, which honored Confederate soldiers for upholding Southern traditions and states’ rights rather than seeing them as perpetrators of slavery."
Republican candidates for president Mike Pence and Ron DeSantis have criticized the name changes as "“wokeness” or “political correctness".
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| (Photo by Tim Lennox, 1970) |
"Rucker's new name is for Chief Warrant Officer Michael Novosel, a medevac helicopter pilot who flew 2,543 extraction missions, rescuing more than 5,500 seriously wounded soldiers, in Vietnam."
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