Fort Moore Was Named After My Parents. A Letter Mom Wrote Shows Why It Shouldn't Go Back to Benning
It’s been less than two years since the Army renamed the training base near Columbus, Georgia, in honor of my parents, Lt. Gen. Harold “Hal” and Julie Moore.
“Our family is deeply grateful that our parents will be honored, remembered, and held as role models for the generations of Army soldiers in these stands and to come,” my brother, Col. David Moore, said at that ceremony. “They loved each other. They loved us. They loved the Army and their beloved troopers, so much so that my father’s last wish was to be buried among his troopers here at the post cemetery—the same troopers my mother referred to as their sons and brothers and with whom she is buried as well.”
Yet, here we are today, being asked how we feel about the name of Fort Moore reverting back to Fort Benning.
For more than a century, the Army post bore the name of Henry Benning, a Confederate brigadier general and ardent advocate of slavery. It took bipartisan legislation and the work of a Congressional Naming Commission to rename Fort Benning—along with eight other Army installations named for Confederate leaders.
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