What’s in a name? Congressional commission could dignify the base renaming question

Published June 15, 2020 4:54pm ET



The Senate Armed Services Committee voted last week to pass the National Defense Authorization Act for 2021, and it has Congress taking a leading role in an initiative to change the names of military bases that memorialize Confederate soldiers.

The bill’s final language has not been published yet, but an executive summary outlines its creation of a commission “to study and provide recommendations concerning the removal, names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederate States of America.” The commission’s plan would be implemented after three years.

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