http://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/02/11/pete-hegseth-is-bringing-back-ft-bragg-but-better-than-ever-n2408149
Erasing history is one of the hallmarks of Marxism. As George Orwell rightfully noted, 'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.' Whenever Marxists have taken over a society, one of their primary actions has always been to tear down, rename, or wipe out any cultural touchstones that reflected a time when they were not in power.
Stalin's Russia, Mao's China, and Pol Pot's Cambodia are all examples of countries that have used this playbook, but it was really frightening when the government of the United States began to implement it, most notably in the recent -- thankfully ended -- Obama and Biden administrations. When protesters across the country were vandalizing and tearing down Civil War statues, the excuse was that they were just doing that to monuments from the Confederacy, but it was never about that at all. They didn't just tear down a statue of Robert E. Lee, they gleefully defaced it and melted it down in a deliberate humiliation ritual. And, of course, they didn't stop with historical markers of the Confederacy. Soon, statues of Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, and even Abraham Lincoln began to be removed or vandalized.
The Biden administration and former Defense Secretary Llyod Austin endorsed this erasure of America's history almost immediately with a commission to rename any American military bases that recognized a Confederate leader. This included Fort Bragg, the U.S. Army North Carolina base that is home to the United States Special Operations Command and the Army's XVIII Airborne Corps. The base was renamed 'Fort Liberty,' a meaningless name that pretended to celebrate patriotism with the word 'liberty' while erasing the legacy of an American general.
We are happy to report that this woke, shameful erasure of American history is OVER, at least in any locations where new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has a say in the matter. In one of his first speeches as a member of the Trump Cabinet, Hegseth refused to call Fort Bragg 'Fort Liberty,' signaling that changes were coming and that common sense, sanity, and respect for our nation's history were returning.
Last night, Hegseth made it official, signing a memorandum ordering that the name Fort Bragg be restored to the North Carolina base. Watch:
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) ~ Bragg is back! I just signed a memorandum reversing the naming of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg.
Video ~ http://twitter.com/i/status/1889119135759585562
Oh, but wait. It gets better. It gets so much better.
Almost certainly anticipating the attacks he would receive for returning the name 'Bragg' to the base, Hegseth went a step further in his order. The new Fort Bragg is now named after another American military hero, Private First Class Roland L. Bragg, who distinguished himself during World War II.
Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) ~ BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed a new memorandum renaming Fort Liberty in North Carolina to Fort Roland L. Bragg.
Hegseth signed the memo shortly before landing in Stuttgart, Germany aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17.
The name Fort Bragg is coming back, but with a twist. It will not be named after the former Confederate general.
Instead, the new name pays tribute to Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, a World War II hero who earned the Silver Star and Purple Heart for his exceptional courage during the Battle of the Bulge.
Have fun screeching and protesting against that, woke leftists.
In the full text of the order, Hegseth expands on the heroism of Private Bragg:
Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) ~
Needless to say, Hegseth's order was a huge hit last night, particularly with veterans.
Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) ~ The buried lede about why this is a great move by @PeteHegseth is that this honors a heroic junior enlisted soldier instead of some general.
Hegseth promised that, as Defense Secretary, he would put our warfighters first and would eliminate wokeness and DEI from the military.
This order does both.
Tired of being politically correct (@USBornNRaised) ~ I don’t know if you understand what a big deal it is for the US Army and veterans alike that Fort Bragg is given its rightful name back. Thanks @SecDef!
terry schappert (@terryschappert) ~ To be fair, the Real Ones never did or were never gonna call it anything else.
Of course, not everyone was happy. Many on the left embarrassed themselves last night by not reading the order and just instinctively screaming about it (which, let's face it, was probably at least a small part of Hegseth's calculation here).
Rachel Bitecofer (@RachelBitecofer) ~ Bragg was a traitor just like you Pete.
Awww, poor Rachel ... can't bother to actually READ the pronouncement before shooting off your ignorant yap, eh? How terribly typical of you, stupid fat pig.
Oh, honey. Thank you for reacting exactly how everyone knew you would react: mindlessly.
Fort Bragg was not the only base that Biden and Austin renamed in 2022 though. There were nine bases where they tried to erase our history, including Fort Benning in Georgia, Fort Hood in Texas, and Fort Lee in Virginia.
But Hegseth also made it clear last night that he was not going to stop at returning the name to Fort Bragg.
Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) ~ Bragg now. More to come.
We look forward to Hegseth restoring the historical names of each and every one, as well as all of the other changes that he is making to restore America's military; the military that Biden and Obama did their best to destroy and remake in a woke model.
The left in America tried for years to implement the Marxist playbook of erasing our history in America.
It didn't work.
Under President Trump, Secretary Hegseth, and others, the pendulum is finally swinging back ... hard.
Oh no, the sow known as Rachel Bitecofer is gonna have a nervous breakdown. She SHOULD be used to tragic disappointment in her bitter, miserable life, though. Here she was predicting the outcome of the 2024 presidential election ...
The final Electoral College map actually turned out like this ...
Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia & Florida not gray, but red. Wisconsin, Michigan & Pennsylvania not blue, but red. BWHA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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