'Magnificent and fabled military installations': Trump rules out removing Confederate names from US bases
Bases named for Confederate military leaders are all located in former Confederate statesTen bases carry the names of Confederate military leaders, including Fort Bragg in North Carolina, one of the largest in the United States, and Fort Hood in Texas.In a series of tweets, Mr Trump argued the bases had become part of a "Great American Heritage".
Bases named for Confederate military leaders are all located in former Confederate states from Virginia to Texas. Many of those states helped elect Mr Trump in 2016, and he is counting on them again for the November 3 election.On Wednesday, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, urged Congress to immediately take steps to remove from the US Capitol 11 statues representing Confederate leaders and soldiers from the Civil War.
In an article published on Tuesday local time in The Atlantic, retired General and former CIA chief David Petraeus called for the bases to be renamed, pointing out that the men they were named for "committed treason, however much they may have agonised over it" by fighting for the Confederacy.
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