Strip Confederate leaders' names from U.S. military bases

It never made much sense to affix Braxton Bragg’s name to one of the U.S. Army’s major installations, Ft. Bragg in North Carolina. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told Politico on Monday that, after initially opposing the idea, he is now open to discussing renaming Ft. Bragg and nine other installations bearing the names of Confederate war heroes. The memorials tied into the romanticized “Lost Cause” narrative that secession and the Civil War were about states’ rights in the face of “Northern aggression,” and in defense of Southern honor and way of life. An easy step is removing Confederate statues from public spaces and stripping the names of slavery’s soldiers from U.S. military bases and public buildings.