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Army refuses to scrub Confederate names from Brooklyn base

By Joel Gehrke
Published August 7, 2017 7:32pm ET
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Army refuses to scrub Confederate names from Brooklyn base
A group of Democratic lawmakers asked the Army in June to rename a pair of streets at Fort Hamilton, in Brooklyn, which currently honoring Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, part of a broader effort to take down Confederate memorials across the country. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) | Kathy Willens

The U.S. Army won’t scrub the names of Confederate generals from a base in New York City, military officials told Congress.

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