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US base drops Confederate name, honors decorated WWII soldier

The United States on Friday renamed a military base in Virginia to honor an American soldier decorated for heroism during World War II instead of a general who fought for the pro-slavery breakaway Confederacy. The 41,000-acre Virginia National Guard installation, which was previously called Fort Pickett, is the first of nine American military bases to drop the name of a figure who served the Confederate States of America, which was made up of southern states that seceded and were defeated in the 1861-1865 US Civil War. “Today we honor colonel Van T Barfoot, World War II Medal of Honor recipient and longtime resident of Virginia, with the redesignation of this installation,” its commander, Colonel James Shaver, said at a ceremony held in a hangar at the base. Members of Barfoot’s family attended the ceremony and helped unveil a sign bearing the base’s new name: Fort Barfoot Joint Training Center. Barfoot, who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam and reached the rank of colonel, died in 2012 at age 92. He received the Medal of Honor — the nation’s highest military award for valor — for actions including taking out two German machine gun nests, capturing 17 enemy soldiers, disabling a tank with a bazooka and aiding wounded troops in Italy in 1944. – Congressional requirement – The base was previously named for Confederate major general George Pickett, who led three brigades in an assault on Union troops during the Battle of Gettysburg that became known as “Pickett’s Charge.” The general — who graduated last in his class from West Point and served in the Mexican-American war before resigning his commission to join the Confederacy — lost over half his command in the attack, which was ordered by general Robert E. Lee. The Confederacy lost the battle and the war, but Pickett survived both and later worked as a farmer and insurance salesman. Calls to rename the bases — all of which are located in southern states that seceded and briefly formed the Confederacy — gained momentum during nationwide protests against racism and police brutality that were sparked by the 2020 murder of George Floyd, an African American man who died at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis. In the National Defense Authorization Act for 2021, Congress required the establishment of a commission to plan for the removal of Confederate-linked “names, symbols, displays, monuments, or paraphernalia” from Defense Department property, and gave the secretary three years to carry out its recommendations. Then-president Donald Trump opposed the renaming effort, tweeting in 2020 that his administration “will not even consider” changing the names of the bases, which “have become part of a Great American Heritage, and a history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom.” He vetoed the defense bill, but Congress overrode it in a blow to Trump, who by then had lost his bid for presidential re-election to Joe Biden.

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