![]() ![]() He earned another Distinguished Service Cross in Vietnam, where he had attained the rank of lieutenant colonel, for leading soldiers through an ambush, organizing a counter-attack that repulsed their enemies and exposing himself to hostile fire numerous times in the process. In Korea, as a first lieutenant, he earned the Distinguished Service Cross – the American military’s second highest citation for valor – for repeatedly returning to a battlefield to personally evacuate soldiers that were wounded while fighting along his side, according to the Naming Commission. But it will now be named after a Mexican American native of Texas who served the US army in the Korean and Vietnam wars. Since its permanent establishment in 1950, the fort commemorated the commander of the Confederate army’s Texas brigade during the civil war. The fort destined to be renamed after Cavazos houses about 40,000 soldiers and sits in Bell county, Texas, where Latino residents make up more than a quarter of the population. ![]() Photograph: Courtesy of the Naming Commission Gen Richard Cavazos was a Mexican American native of Texas who served the US army in the Korean and Vietnam wars. The killings of nine people at a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 also helped spark the push.Īustin’s memo said the bases’ names should “fully reflect the history and the values of the United States and commemorate the best of the republic that we are all sworn to protect”. There has been a broad push to remove public symbols of the Confederacy after the 2017 killing of a counter-protester during a white supremacist rally opposing the removal of a Confederate Gen Robert E Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia. ![]() The base long named after John Bell Hood – who served the Confederacy – is just one of multiple military installations and facilities that the US defense department has been asked to rename by the Naming Commission, created by Congress to remove symbols commemorating Confederate figures.Įight other military bases whose names were inspired by Confederates who betrayed the United States while waging and losing the US civil war will be renamed as well. ![]()
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