Moore children reflect on Ft. Benning being renamed to honor their parents

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Fort Benning will be renamed in honor of Harold Gregory “Hal” Moore Jr. and his wife Julia "Julie" Compton Moore. The name change must be finished by Jan. 1, 2024, according to the 2021 Defense Authorization Act, which included a Congressional mandate to eliminate such tributes to leaders of the Confederacy. The fort is named for Henry Lewis Benning, a lawyer, politician, firebrand secessionist and Confederate general. Four of their children, Gregory, Stephen, and David Moore, and Cecile Moore Rainey, visited Ft. Benning recently and spoke about the post being renamed Fort Moore to honor both their parents.
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[@cptrfwright]

I went to Jump School and IOBC at "FORT BENNING". Millions of Infantrymen trained at "FORT BENNING" and many died for this country.

[@basher5107]

They trained at a military base just like every other soldier. the name of the base is part of our rich history,not those who swore to burn this country down.

[@dildobaggins8987]

Right…and now its fort Moore. An apt name that any person can respect

[@kerryhoward804]

I trained at Ft.Benning on Sand Hill Alpha Co. 258 Infantry Battalion 2nd Platoon Dominators. This world we live in has gone soft and gone to shit. I have nothing against Hal Moore he was a great man!! I do have a problem with changing the name in order to separate it from the confederation. You can rename and try to forget but you can’t erase history. I had a sergeant once who said “You clean up and polish a terd all you want, but no matter how much you shine that terd and how shiny it gets,it’s still a terd”Next they’ll be wanting to change the Statue of Liberty!!!!!

[@thodan467]

@@kerryhoward804 Henry L Benning was an ardent Supporter of slavery

[@ABN-wi5nk]

@@basher5107 I can see you are a follower of Barrack Hussein Obama and his anti American woke philosophy... The names will change back and American history will be restored.

[@Basilius27]

Such is life,I'm a South African age56. I grew up watching your movies on the big screen (drive-ins),from there on VHS . Us as a generation Saw an amazing change in the pace of life due technology, sometimes it was hard to keep up but the way we've been brought up helped us adapt. This is just a thank you from me for the hours of entertainment and lessons in courage you have given me. ❤ Marcel

[@paulshanahan135]

God Bless your parents for the sacrifices they made for our country, as well as the men and their families who gave so much to the nation. Especially those who gave the last full measure on the battle field. 🙏 Eternal rest grant unto them Oh Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.

[@johnmyers-ep8uk]

Thankyou! That was a very wonderful story and video and im very grateful for watching and learning about the History of your beautiful family back during the Korea /Vietnam error while in our great Military thru that very difficult time!

[@StillPlaysWithModelTrains1956]

Sorry, but it will always be Fort Benning to me! My mom and dad are buried at the Main Post Cemetery off of Custer Road along with my sister who was one of the last deliveries at the old hospital complex on Baltzell Avenue before everything was transferred out to Martin Army Hospital in 1962. I grew up there. I got to meet John Wayne and George Takei during the production of the "Green Berets" in 1967. Attended Patch and White Elementary as well as Don C. Faith Junior High before being bussed eighteen miles into Columbus in 1972 to the old Spencer High on Sheppard Drive. I eventually graduating in 1975, enlisted in the Navy and never looked back. We lived at 17 Christian Lane, 50b Arrowhead Road, 109 Baltzell Ave, 407 Wickersham Ave, 43a Arrowhead Road, 509 Baltzell Avenue and finally at 28a/b Arrowhead Road before dad retired in 1978 and he bought the house on Curry Street in the Dimond Springs neighborhood.

[@zenever0]

We’ll always remember that Confederates are traitors and white supremacists 🇺🇸

[@11binfantryfollowmeus.army95]

@@zenever0And trans losers like you…

[@austinwilliams2082]

those installations should’ve never been named after confederate losers to begin with.

[@harlemsown2725]

No one cares what you think. We are grateful for Fort Moore! 🫡

[@lifesabeach5405]

They have already forgotten you. Move on. It's not your army anymore

[@montanamountainmen6104]

To us " old timers" it will always be Benning, Hood, Jackson, etc. No PC bs will change that.

[@markblanchard88]

Yep.

[@zenever0]

Fort Jackson isn’t going to be renamed because he wasn’t a confederate traitor.

[@mississippihiker545]

I’m just glad it wasn’t renamed Fort Hillary Obama. Benning lives on…

[@mississippihiker545]

@@zenever0 fort Cameltoe Hairyass or fort chimpanzee/hyena hybrid are other options

[@montanamountainmen6104]

@@zenever0 " Stonewall Jackson" Major General CSA.

[@alantoon5708]

When at the NCO academy we were each asked who, in our opinion, exemplified the word "leader". My response was LTGEN Hal Moore, of course. And it was so disappointing that the other students did not know who Hal Moore was...

[@fordwk]

Age of the Students played a big role in it.

[@basher5107]

The military doesn’t teach history but they do have library’s….

[@michaelbenjmitchell1]

Actually While correct it was also incomplete you should have said Hal Moore, Norman Schwarzkopf ,and Robin Olds. All three exemplified the word Leader and all three were great leaders during the Vietnam War.

[@santamanone]

Who exemplifies the word “leader?” Audie Murphy comes to mind. Chesty Puller comes to mind. George Washington comes to mind. Robert E Lee comes to mind. Chief Roman Nose comes to mind.

[@Bartonfink3434]

R.I.P. General and Mrs Moore and those magnificent troopers!

[@4catsnow]

We signed out at the admin building on main post in '70...Six of us at a time lined up at a table with a seated warrant officer...Guy at the head of the line was 1st Air Cav...got his discharge paperwork,, turned around to leave and said to us "Holy shit...we're still breathin'...I remember that like it was yesterday....that was a VERY good day...

[@theone-rp2gq]

God bless the Moore family Hal was a true American hero

[@shacknastyray4429]

As a veteran i truly appreciate the care and concerns Hal Moore had for his troopers

[@michaelbenjmitchell1]

with the old guard generals that came out of Nam like Moore Schwarzkopf and Olds. They don't make generals like them anymore men who fought and bled alongside their men who led from the front you don't get that anymore with today's command officers.

[@svenniacin6891]

Remembering history. Let’s not forget our history.

[@rebeccagable9629]

One of the stated goals of M@rxism is to erase history....our kids & grandkids are not being taught it in many schools/universities now bc so many teachers/professors lean to the left.

[@zenever0]

@@rebeccagable9629there’s no forgetting that Confederates are traitors.

[@LouieKaboom]

Then why erase it by changing the base's name? They don't give a shit about Moore; this was done to erase our history. It's a disgrace.

[@mississippihiker545]

No disrespect to LTG Moore but “ our history “ isn’t being forgotten it’s being altered to fit a narrative. If Benning had to be renamed, Moore was a good choice. Fort Obama or Fort Hillary would have sucked

[@zenever0]

@@mississippihiker545 the only narrative is yours of white supremacy

[@lennywestberry8230]

I went to basic training in 1987 at Sand Hill, Echo Company, Seventh Battalion, First Infantry Training Brigade, Ft. Benning Georgia. For me and my fond memories of the time I spent there, It will always be Benning to me.

[@Niyahn33]

Ok you are one single individual we don’t name bases after traitors anymore, we didn’t name a base after Benedict Arnold

[@lennywestberry8230]

@@Niyahn33 So renaming all institutions helps you snowflakes sleep at night?

[@ComfortsSpecter]

@@Niyahn33”…” “Obviously Doesn’t Care for any It’s Fake Morals, Ethics and The Protection of Basic History dropping Bad Takes like That:”

[@jerrymiller9039]

YOU are also just one individual and Benning is the rightfull name for millions of loyal patriotic Americans​@@Niyahn33

[@nmelkhunter1]

@@Niyahn33You simply don’t get the bond soldiers have with their training post unless you’ve been in their shoes.

[@johnt2475]

Great man but I hate the name changes. Fort Benning and Fort Bragg will always be that. I have never thought about a Confederate General when I think about those places. Next will be Washington, Jefferson, et al.

[@zenever0]

Confederates are traitors. They will not be honored. 🇺🇸

[@a.d.h1019]

GOD Bless LTG Moore and may he R.I.P🇨🇱🇺🇸👊🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@elguapo5124]

I'm glad it was named after Hal Moore I'm thankfull for that, BUT I don't think it should of been renamed we lost so much history changing the name, I trained there and there's alot of other vets that are not happy about it, and the reason for it being renamed are not any good and make as much sense as building monuments to gourge floyed who was a criminal

[@smorris410]

You might want to consider using your GI Bill then, because that was a stupid-ass argument riddled with issues.

[@zenever0]

There’s no changing that Confederates are traitors 🇺🇸

[@thisismyrealname2860]

The reasons are obvious and pretty directly stated, why would you want to continue honoring people who fought to defend slavery?

[@billh.5360]

@@thisismyrealname2860 We need to embrace and accept our history, the good and the bad, or else we won't learn from it. And slavery was of course a key factor in the Civil War, but it wasn't only about slavery. Keep the Confederate names and monuments so we can remember our full history.. They should not be changed!

[@GothPopTV]

Senseless post from a “woke” terrorist. Everyone is a criminal in America. Harvard Law professor Harvey Silvergate estimates the average American commits 3 felonies per day. Should they all be killed? The United States is the prison capital of the world, with 1% of the population is in jail. Should they all be killed? As a conservative constitutional list who believes in free-speech, I have no problem with a statue of George Floyd or David Duke. If you build it and pay for it, and your residents want it, that’s your business. Do you know what type of people going around saying who can and can’t have statues? ANTIFA. That’s That’s what you sound like. I also don’t give a rats ass who is on the outside of a Bud Light can. Woke. Conservatives are a CANCER to the GOP. We stand for free speech not all this other BS. Liberal crackheads started it, but thanks to Republicans, responding in-kind, the result is a nation plagued with cancel culture.

[@elliothagen9874]

Good story. RIP General and Mrs. Moore. The Army could not picked better people to rename Ft. Benning.

[@esbam2002]

It was Ft Benning growing up. Ft Benning when I was there. It will still be Ft Benning, or Lee, or Hood, or Bragg etc.

[@zenever0]

Cope

[@arkybaldknobber8062]

@@zenever0 ....Snowflake Alert!!!!!!!!!

[@zenever0]

@@arkybaldknobber8062 C O P E

[@puma2334]

@@arkybaldknobber8062says the one angry over a name change

[@11binfantryfollowmeus.army95]

@@puma2334Oktransfreak,…

[@Historyfreak-f7o]

Not a big fan of the re naming thing these days. If you’re going to do that, you couldn’t have picked a better man than Hal Moore. Just an incredible human being. ❤️

[@josephryan9230]

Fully agreed on both counts. I spent 4 years with the 82nd and the renaming of Ft. Bragg to "Ft. Liberty" is frankly disgusting. However, renaming Ft. Benning to Ft. Moore works for me. It just seemed like a very top-down process, with no inputs from soldiers who actually served at these bases, at least to me.

[@johnr5893]

I did perfunctory research on the generals whose posts were renamed. These guys were pretty repugnant in their views. It’s good to refresh your brand every so often. They shouldn’t stop at just confederate generals, a lot of union generals were scumbags and racists, too. Rename those posts with more modern names, also.

[@basher5107]

Once you take up arms against your country you have no honor

[@feudinggreeks3316]

@@johnr5893 "It's good to refresh your brand your brand every so often." In other words, "it's good to not maintain a continuous face and heritage, but to keep changing it so that you don't have a lasting image."

[@austinwilliams2082]

@@josephryan9230 those installations should’ve never been named after confederate losers to begin with.

[@jrhamp]

The grave site was held for the wife of one of the Soldiers killed; when General Moore asked her if he could bury his wife in that special place with "her boys", the wife said yes for what Mrs. Moore did to assist the wives of those killed in the battle. End state, both General and Mrs. Moore are buried together and with the men loss at the battle of Ia Drang valley November of 1965.

[@ambrosephill9]

If all of America had that kind of devotion, Southeast Asia would have been free from 1975 until the present. Moore and his men are the kind of patriots this country needs, not the John Kerry's or General Milley's of this world.

[@amandawhisnant2270]

That wife you're talking about is the widow of Jack Earl Gell, who is Rebecca Gell Workentine, my mother's first cousin. Jack is buried next to Hal and Julia Moore, Becky gave up her spot for Julia Moore. In fact, I spoke to Rebecca yesterday at her sister's funeral. She gave the eulogy and she introduced herself as Rebecca Seigler Gell Workentine.

[@alsimpson1659]

Thank you sir and your lady and children for service and sacrifice .

[@crobertmayes5541]

Awesome 🇺🇸. What a blessing to the USA, Hal Moore and his family.

[@twlowe19]

If you're going to rename a base, anywhere, renaming it after Hal Moore has got to be about the best choice!

[@jameshenryarchbold5061]

RIP General Moore!

[@theceska8345]

I'm not ARMY but naming the Fort after such a HERO in my mind is a very good thing. RIP MOORE

[@max420thc]

I don’t think the fort name should be changed. I was in the seventh cavalry, Moore was a excellent American and commander. As tough as they come. But tradition means something to me.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

@@max420thc It's the age that we live in. Benning was a Confederate General and the regime is renaming all bases named after them.

[@mississippihiker545]

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 Fort Hillary Obama. Or Ft Joesph R. Uh uh you know….the thing. Would really suck.

[@fordwk]

Benning was a Hero to his men...no one in Congress or the Administration gives a shit about Moore or Benning...just the politics of the issue.

[@dougellis4092]

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 I like how you stated regime😎

[@jameslockery361]

God bless Hal Moore. A true American hero. A great leader. A loving and dedicated family man. Rest In Peace.

[@Hutchbullterrier1]

That’s an awesome idea. Total respect. My Dad would have been proud of this decision. He was in Patton’s third army. He lives to be 94.

[@jamesdeihl1845]

Moore was a hero but they shouldn't change the army bases name! Its good to honor Hale Moore but put up a permanent big sign but the base name should remain the same!

[@zenever0]

Goodbye confederate traitors 🇺🇸

[@rickhaddix6847]

God bless the Moore family. Their father is a true American hero and great leader.

[@honestreviewer3283]

So appropriate to name this base for Hal Moore, and strike the name of a Confederate traitor.

[@bentonheath7838]

What an honor to a great soldier and leader! We would be hard pressed to find a better man and father. I have watched the movie about him in Vietnam and the bravery he displayed.

[@panthercreek60]

Something should be named for Moore, but not Ft Benning. If those haters in Washington want an army with no Southern volunteers then they are on the right track. And what would the US military be without Southerners? There wouldn't be a Declaration of Independence or a US constitution with out the South. Thos renaming of military bases is stupid

[@zenever0]

Confederates might be southern but all Southerners aren’t confederates. Confederates aren’t patriots. Confederates are traitors.

[@JS-954]

@@zenever0 democrats are communists and traitors and they were the confederates the party of slavery lives on

[@bradschwamberger1217]

A true honor and a great Man. My Father-in-law lost a good part of his OCS class at La Drang.

[@basher5107]

God Bless your father in law and the brothers who fought beside him

[@ambrosephill9]

I have a great deal of respect for Hal Moore and the men of LZ X-Ray. But I disagree with the renaming the bases from Confederate Generals, who were local heroes, to make some PC political point. General Milley made it clear that the purpose of renaming the bases was to make the political point that the South, Southerners, and anyone one who defend the Southerners who fought to defend their homes against the political tyranny that General Milley supported are to be considered traitors. The military could have canvas the state where the bases are located and ask those citizens their opinions whether to change it or not. The military could have had a campaign at the state level of the citizenry of whether to keep the base names unchanged or update the base name to a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient who served in Vietnam. But they did not do that. General Milley and the whole Joint Chiefs Of Staff made it clear that the South, Southerners, and their heroes were traitors. By their actions they have made clear that citizen soldiers are not citizen soldiers. What they have made clear that whatever loyalty to your home, family, friends, neighbors, your state is secondary to the US Military and the Federal Government. That is kind of loyalty oath you take to join the Mafia. For over 150 years, North and South we honored the sacrifice each side made to defend their homes and the men who fought. Now, once again, people like Milley, who is from Massachusetts, has started a New Reconstruction Era. Once more rubbing in the face of Southerners that they lost. In fact, Milley said as much, when he referred to these men as traitors and losers. Well General Milley, how many wars has the US Federal Government won? Besides World War 2, the US has not really won a war since the Spanish American War and even then we have ended up involved in Latin America to our detriment. Korea was a Draw, Vietnam was a Loss, because we betrayed the South Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians to the Communist. Lebanon we took a bloody nose and left. Thank God for Grenada and Panama at least we prevailed there. The 1st Gulf War might be a success but only a partial one only because we did not finish the job. The Iraq War and the Afghanistan War were failures. We have spent trillions of dollars, and tens of thousands of lives of our sons and daughters for what purpose? Freedom, liberty, human rights, democracy was that the purposes? Or was the purpose that Milley and his generation of military and political leaders was to foster corruption at home and oversea, to bleed out the poor and working class Americans of all colors to meet an agenda pushed by the elites. Yes, Lee and we Southerner lost the war, but Lee never abandoned his men. The Lee and the Southerners fought until they ran out of resources and men. Once Lee and the Southerner surrendered they went home to rebuild their lives and their homes destroyed by the Federal Government. What has Milley, his fellow generals and the political class done. In no war since World War 2 have we ever not had the manpower, nor have we not had sufficient resources. In fact we have always had superior resources than our enemies. Why has not MIlley and his political class that he defends not prevailed in any of these war. What they do is declare victories that are really failures, They abandon their allies and families to the mercy of the enemy. Scrap up off the ground the pieces of meat that were once our sons and daughters. Then throw the meat into body bags, salute, send them home to grieving families. They extol the sacrifice of the heroes, but they make the sacrifice meaningless. When in fact the sacrifices were not for high ideas but for political and economic gains for the ruling class. Milley and the current narrative is that the South fought for nothing but slavery and Southerner were fools for defending their states against the Federal Government. A Federal Government and North that was quite happy to benefit from slavery as long as they controlled the taxes and resources to benefit Northern textiles. What is Milley and the political class having the American people sacrifice for? Power, Control, Wealth, it certainly is not Freedom, Liberty, Human Rights. What was Lee and the Southerners fighting for? Their homes, and families What is so sad is not that I have come to despise my country. But I have a group of elites, most of who's ancestors were not even here or took part in the Revolution. These elites are destroying the country my ancestors struggled to create and maintain for almost 300 years. People like General Milley is just another arrogant Irish Mick from Massachusetts. He is just another piece of Yankee Eurotrash. It is funny. I wonder will his renaming bases, insulting Southerners, and pushing the Woke agenda going to stop dwindling recruiting? Have we not become like a decaying Rome, having to recruit foreigners who have no historical or familial ties to the country as well as having to hirer mercenaries to fight in Irag and Afghanistan. Sometimes I just wish I live long enough to watch the Republic crumble, from the actions of the political elites that Milley has been supporting for most of his career. Milley and his group are the real traitors. If it was desirable for these bases to be renamed it could have been handled some much differently. Instead of just bases in the South, rename all the bases after Congressional Medal Of Honor recipients just like was done in Vietnam. Where the buildings were named after the heroes who died in Vietnam. Maybe even have historical marker providing the original name of the base and who the person that the base was named after was. But no, it is too late, you can see it in the news, or rather the brainwashing machines whether it is MSM or Internet media. Just making us all brain numb zombies chatting AOC is right, AOC is right, White People bad, America bad, White America feel guilty.

[@mikeb8342]

I'm a Yankee and an army infantry cold war vet.... and you are ON POINT my friend. Renaming posts was not necessary.... and could have been handled better if they felt they must do it. 👍

[@williamguillIII]

If they change all the bases/forts names that are named after Southerners, then they should rename all the bases/forts named for Northerners as well. It's only fair.

[@lisam4503]

Pay attention the people of Massachusetts the Congregationalist did not ask for the civil war! Read Frederick Douglas eviscerating the Congregationalist leadership because they wanted cooler heads to prevail. The lesson you should learn from the civil war is never force a Northern Protestant and Yankee to fight! It's a lesson you apparently haven't learned. Given the Moore's history with the base and their military history you should be honored the base is named after them.

[@lisam4503]

@@williamguillIII The North didn't commit treason nor did it lose! New England didn't want the civil war and that is easily seen. The south forced New England into it!

[@ambrosephill9]

@@mikeb8342 Thanks for the support, I am a Vietnam Era Vet. did not have to actually go, I signed up for the Navy in January 1975, with an induction date in December 1975, Saigon fell April 30, 1975. So I guess I lucked out. I got to work with some of the Boat People during that summer. My boss is a Catholic and sponsored several families. It has sickened me the number of times our foreign policies have made allies of people like these only to betray them. Anyway if the base renaming's were for purposes like honoring the Vietnam Vets that we also betrayed, I still would not have liked it, but I would have understood it. Most people today don't know who Ronald Reagan or JFK were. So trying to get people to understand who Robert E Lee or Stonewall Jackson or any of the South's old heroes might be a stretch. But Milley basically stated that they were all traitors and losers and I am trying to remember when the last time since Milley has been a member of the US military when the US has really been a winner. Depending on how you want to look at some of the actions. Milley and the JCS over the years, one might conclude they might have been considered traitors if not to the political class. Their policies have killed young Americans for no reason. So from that point they are traitors to the people they were supposed to lead. Or at least that is the way I feel.

[@Deadreconing66]

This was overdue Hal Moore rightfully deserves this honor 🎖 🥇 🙏

[@carlhicksjr8401]

1. Greg Moore sounds JUST LIKE his dad... it is freaking uncanny! Most children 'sound a lot like' one of their parents. Greg sounds spot freaking on like his dad. 2. I was unaware that Benning was being renamed Ft. Harold Moore. That should be humbling to most Vietnam veterans. It is a magnificent tribute to an incredible soldier.

[@johnlamonica1150]

thank you for serving and being a true leader sir

[@phillipmckenzie1991]

I am an army brat,USAF veteran,grew up at Benning and Bragg and endorse name change to Ft. Moore.

[@johnleonard8311]

My dad went to Benning after being stationed In Japan and from there we went to Stuttgart. He retired in 1962 at Ft Devens Ma. He resides with my mother in section 13 at Arlington National Cemetery. He would be proud that Ft Benning was renamed after Hal Moore.

[@ralphgreenjr.2466]

I am 30 year US Army retired veteran and I am not in favor of disrespecting Confederate Generals. That said ,I must commend the renaming of Forts Hood and Benning. I was stationed at both. Naming Fort Hood after General Cavazos is an excellent choice. Fort Benning being renamed for General Hal Moore and his wife has given me renewed faith in the Army leadership. Both of these soldiers provided leadership, honor, valor, innovation, and ethics over their entire careers. No wokism here. Lastly, they are my Brothers, Vietnam veterans.

[@carlosyamara]

I don’t see it as disrespectful, they were soldiers fighting against the US, they should be remembered as such. They should be studied and museums should have their statues and artifacts so that history should never be forgotten. But they shouldn’t be venerated as heroes.

[@zenever0]

I am a U.S. Army vet and I am in favor of disrespecting confederate traitors because I’m a U.S. Patriot and not a CSA traitor 🇺🇸

[@dsvet]

Woke has infiltrated our military and this is just further proof of this tragedy. No wonder why recruitment is down.

[@dsvet]

​@@carlosyamara each state has the right to secede from the Union if it so desires and they were defending that right. They are the true patriots.

[@demsareunamerican6800]

​​@@dsvet only State that seceded from anything was WV, from VA. All Southern States are still States as before the Civil War. You don't really know what you're talking about either. If the South won, we wouldn't be the United States would we.

[@roz57]

I had a friend that his dad is mentioned in the book, Sgt. Earthell Tyler. He was shot and killed while asking for the medic, who was already dead not far from him. Hope his story is never forgotten.

[@harry1547]

No winer there having a hard time nobody wants to fight in a war with some transgender or himo

[@dsl32]

God bless your family

[@AC-SlaUkr]

No more (no pun intended) fitting candidate than Hal Moore.

[@xxxxxx-tq4mw]

I’m surprised joe biden didn’t order the name changed to Fort George Floyd.

[@philmcc8106]

I have read the Hal Moores Book and the gentleman reminds me of my CO Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Jones “H” VC of the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment, as a proud Falklands vet and I don’t mind saying I cried hearing his passing. He too cared for his men like Lieutenant General H. Moore and that is to be respected. God Bless them both! 🙏

[@KennethFord-y7c]

This was Awesome! Thank you!

[@johnnybgood-ws5cu]

WE STAND ON SHOULDERS OF GIANTS !!!

[@tomahawk5118]

I think it’s great to Honor Hal Moore and his wife but I’m not at all ok with changing base names or the reason they did it. Never will.

[@davidebrownstl]

It sounds like you want them named after traitors

[@tomahawk5118]

@@davidebrownstl Oh yeah, you caught me. I secretly want one of the posts where I was stationed to be renamed and by a traitor at that! You’re a bright bulb there. Did you know after the Civil War, Confederate Veterans were reclassified as US Veterans? Of course you didn’t. You only wanted to troll my post and fill it with snark and hate. Move along.

[@11binfantryfollowmeus.army95]

@@davidebrownstlOr trans like you….

[@zenever0]

@@11binfantryfollowmeus.army95 There’s no erasing that Confederates are traitors and white supremacists 🇺🇸

[@zenever0]

@@11binfantryfollowmeus.army95 I’m sure you’d like a Timothy McVeigh statue

[@jasonmorgan27]

Lets all be grown ups and call this what it is...Marxism and rewriting history.

[@zenever0]

There’s no rewriting history. Confederates are traitors to the nation.

[@daveenyart]

how did you come up with Marxism?

[@kingkoi6542]

​@daveenyartlook up China's cultural revolution

[@rnews5750]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right” - George Orwell, 1984.

[@robinshull6510]

I think Col. Morre is most definitely a hero. There is no doubt about that, but changing the name of bases because they were originally named after Confederate generals is fucking stupid.

[@zenever0]

Yeah, it’s pretty stupid they named the base after a Confederate traitor during Jim Crow

[@tedbaxter5234]

It’s about tradition, it is Fort Benning. Find something new to name in Moore’s name. What will we name Fort Moore next week. Tradition.

[@zenever0]

The tradition that confederates are traitors

[@arkybaldknobber8062]

@@zenever0....... BLM are terrorists

[@josephnapolitano277]

I was born in Ft. Benning. Everyone suffered. Leave the name ALONE

[@michaelrains2268]

Mr . Moore was an honorable man , that said leave our honored Confederate dead alone to rest in peace, leave our Confederate monuments alone , and leave our forts with Confederate leaders' names upon them alone . If yankees want to have a fort named after this man, choose some other fort outside of our southern lands .

[@zenever0]

Confederate traitors will not be honored 🇺🇸

[@billh.5360]

@@zenever0 That's aa extremely unfair comment. The Confederates weren't traitors. You're judging a people from a different generation that is long gone. We cannot fully know the circumstances of the split during the Civil War the way those did who lived it. I'm glad the North won of course, but remember, history is complicated!

[@zenever0]

@@billh.5360 confederates are traitors and it’s not complicated if you understand that sedition, rebellion and traitor are all synonymous. Support for the confederates means you’re anti government or a white suprematist, or both. Pick your poison. The reasons are stated clearly in the articles of succession and the actions taken after the civil war; initiation of black codes, Jim Crow laws and fleeing to Brazil.

[@lisam4503]

Your "Southern lands" are part and parcel part of the United States! You don't get to tell every American how to think. act or that we are not welcome in any part of the U.S! Sorry about your participation trophies and lost cause fake history finally being called out and laid to rest with the Confederate dead. LTG Moore was a million times more a man and Patriot than Henry Benning the traitor ever was.

[@lisam4503]

@@billh.5360 They picked up guns and attacked the legitimate Government of the United States! That is treason as it now it was then! trea·son [ˈtrēzən] NOUN the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government:

[@TSimo113]

Good Choice

[@hotttt28]

An American hero !

[@colecol2]

People getting caught up in the rebellion of secession from over 150 years ago are stupid. This post had no connection to Benning for me when I trained there, but for me and thousands of others, it was The Home of The Infantry. Most of the proponents of name change probably didn’t train there as infantry, I’m sure some did, like the Vindmans. And I’m sure there are other current traitors who wore the blue cord. But changing names of posts where so many of our dead or maimed, or permanently damaged heroes trained, were trained, or stationed is insulting to their legacies. Other problems need our attention and resources. This just smells of bad actors satisfying other bad actors and special interests.

[@zenever0]

It’s about the black codes and Jim Crow era white supremacy lmao. Confederate traitors and white supremacists will not be honored 🇺🇸

[@thisismyrealname2860]

All the importance you pkacebin that name is 100% the result of YOU choosing to impart that meaning, if this has been done before you served every single aspect of your service would have happened just as it did.

[@colecol2]

@@thisismyrealname2860 exactly. Just like the confederacy-happened a century and a half ago, and if race hustlers didn’t foment discord, there wouldn’t be any.

[@ambrosephill9]

So are the people that get caught up in the rebellion of secession from 1776 just as stupid?????🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jaywilson2600]

@@thisismyrealname2860 Your unintelligent comment/opinion will probably not receive any support. Don't take it the wrong way, it's just that what you say makes no sense.

[@theplatinumtakeoff6215]

Ft. Benning will always be Ft. Benning as far as I’m concerned. No need to change the name. I graduated from Ft. BENNING not Ft. “Moore”.

[@zenever0]

Cope

[@basher5107]

You graduated from military training not an army base. No need to honor insurrection or if you Do feel that way name a base after Trump. Can’t remember any of my brothers talk politics during spades and a few beers.

[@MTMountainMan5411]

Suck it up and drive on.

[@K0BLR]

It will always be known as ft benning. Hey army stop trying to rewrite history

[@zenever0]

There’s no rewriting that confederates are traitors

[@JDDupuy]

Its fits and the post will have a continued and honorable tradition. I met the man and it was an honor to have him sign my book!

[@blahblah5750]

Beautiful human beings.

[@Thedivorcedmom]

As someone who actually lives here, millions of dollars were spent to change on post signage but we have to live with mold in our homes-just saying…

[@asdnetwork4268]

Moore is awesome, but give a new base his name.

[@hildeschmid8400]

What new base? They've been closing bases, not building them

[@asdnetwork4268]

@hildeschmid8400 I'm sure a new base will come in Americas future.

[@rkba4923]

I will never recognize it as other than Fort Benning, FYAVM!!!

[@hunterrichie2764]

This is definitely not political at all. Nope, no politics, just the government changing the name of a base to a Vietnam era colonel. Colonel Thomas Moore and his soldiers would love this.

[@zenever0]

Definitely not political that the bases were named for confederate traitors at the height of Jim Crow in 1910

[@arkybaldknobber8062]

@@zenever0 .... I miss Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima

[@zenever0]

@@arkybaldknobber8062 of course the racist with Nathan Bedford Forrest’s photo misses the height of white supremacy

[@austinwilliams2082]

Well said

[@billhickerson9382]

If a post is going to be renamed then someone like General Moore is an excellent person to name it after!

[@trob0914]

if the name change was inevitable, Fort Moore is a Very fitting rename as it represents two wonderful people, God Bless them!!

[@richardcolsen4739]

Changing the name of FT.BENNINGTON, GA. Is one more slap in the face of every Infantryman who served from the civil war to today!!! Erasing those soldiers who served this country at great expense to ourselves and our families!!! Erase history you erased generations of Great Soldiers!!!! Guess I’m no longer a veteran, but then

[@zenever0]

There’s no erasing that Confederates are traitors. 🇺🇸

[@diegoerazo5453]

a true leader. we'll follow you sir.

[@DC9716]

While I don't support renaming military bases. I can't think of anyone I'd rather see it named after than Gen Moore. Thank you to the Moore family for all they have done for our country.

[@matthewwebster2697]

Having spent time at Ft. Benning, I'm highly disappointed at having it renamed. However, LTG Moore is an iconic American General who deserves every recognition and accolades that can be bestowed upon an American military hero. Ft. Benning? No. Ft. Moore? Hell yeah... Needs to be a brand new installation that follows the example of LTG Moore.

[@henrykberonio9008]

Lt Colonel Hal Moore Is The Real Life Captain America

[@patadams4448]

Renaming bases to remove references to brave Confederate heros was a mistake.

[@zenever0]

There’s nothing brave about being a traitor to defend African slavery and oppression.

[@arkybaldknobber8062]

@@zenever0 ....African chiefs sold their own people into slavery

[@echobase1648]

...Meanwhile the Benning descendants wonder WTF did we do to deserve this....

[@zenever0]

He betrayed his nation as a traitor to defend the infernal institution of African slavery

[@rogerd777]

He was a traitor to his country, that’s what

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

They NEVER deserved the honor in the first place! The Benning LITERALLY betrayed his country and violated his oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States!!!

[@MTMountainMan5411]

Served in a different country's military.

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

@@MTMountainMan5411 Worse, the Confederacy was never a country. He was just a traitorous criminal.

[@princybella6]

When you change your history you lose your identity.

[@zenever0]

There’s no changing that Confederates are traitors.

[@ambrosephill9]

Those who forget the lessons of history are just encouraging Seccession!!!!!

[@zenever0]

@@ambrosephill9 there's no forgetting that confederates are traitors who betrayed the nation to defend the infernal institution of African slavery

[@YoshiYosheda]

Tell that to Republicans who want to erase history by banning books in school

[@balancedactguy]

RIP General & Mrs. Moore!!🙏

[@tombob671]

General Moore was the real deal. Respect from this 77 year old Jarhead.

[@jerryferko8309]

what a terrific video .....thanks for the upload

[@davidthomas2921]

I feel that changing military post names is very ill responsible. You can't change the past, many great soldiers came from places like..FT.BRAGG..FT BENNING, The great soldiers, that served on these installations, and I sure there are some I didn't mention .You can't change the past..Like the Civil War didn't happen, in reality great Americans died on both sides..OKKKKAY they came together after the Civil War, went to fight the Spanish America war and ww1..OKKKKAY if you want to rename military post or Forts..Just build new ones, what's done is done.. American isn't going forward. It's going backwards. FROM A BLACK ARMY VET, FT.BRAGG N C WILL ALWAYS BE FT.BRAGG TO ME, AND MANY OTHERS..BY THE WAY THEY DON'T TRAIN LIKE WE DID..THEY GOT THE FAT MAN PROGRAM RUNNING THE MILTARY TODAY. THEY HAVE LOWERED THE STANDARDS..THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES WILL NOT SURVIVE A REAL CONFLICT..

[@zenever0]

There’s no changing that Confederates are traitors 🇺🇸

[@11binfantryfollowmeus.army95]

@@zenever0And trans it/that/them are freaks

[@williamwaits]

And we wonder why recruitment is down

[@austinwilliams2082]

@@williamwaits What does this have to do with recruitment?

[@juliewoods6534]

Let's not forget history. Then quit renaming forts. I was a MP in the early 1970s. I had to deal with dependent brats. I wonder if they were the worse cuz their daddy was a general.

[@zenever0]

There’s no forgetting that Confederates are traitors 🇺🇸

[@11binfantryfollowmeus.army95]

@@zenever0Keep copying and pastung your trans loser bs

[@trumpcountry47]

I was Pissed when I first heard they were going to rename Fort Benning ( and the other bases because they were named after Confederate Generals. This is BS because they were still AMERICAN Generals, some of the greatest in our history and as such part of our true history.) having spent several years of my youth living on base while my father was stationed there as part of the 7th Cav. with Lt. Col. Moore as his CO but when I found out it was going to be renamed after Hal Moore and his wife Julie I was elated!! Could not have picked a more deserving family to name it after! Fort Benning will always be a special place for me, 4th of July rides on the jump tower (strapped in a seat with guide wires of course), watching John Wayne film the "Green Berets" movie on base and remembering my father always laughing at the end of the movie when the sun was setting on the ocean. He would laugh and say during his three tours in Vietnam, he never saw a sun set on a Vietnamize ocean (because it sets in the west of course and the Vietnamize ocean faced east.) but a lot of sunrises, ha. Riding our bikes through the very neighborhoods shown in this video, catching Monarch Butterflies while we watched long lines of Paratroopers jump out of C130's and catching tadpoles, ha. Memorable times but my father always respected and spoke very highly of Lt. Col. Moore and I'm sure would have been very happy to see Fort Benning named after him and his wonderful wife.

[@katiestans2824]

I still think that they should have just named all of them Fort 1 Fort 2 etc. that way no baby gets their feelings hurt or is left out. I guess for awhile there will be a lot of confusion about where folks are supposed to go.

[@zenever0]

It’s interesting that babies get their feelings hurt when confederate traitors lose their place of honor

[@JS-954]

@@zenever0 it will be interesting when the democratic party gets what it's got coming to it and then some

[@zenever0]

@@JS-954 Confederates traitors are made up of white southern conservatives. Jim Crow is made up of white southern conservatives. KKK is made up of white southern conservatives. The argument of Dems vs. Reps is white supremacy propaganda to distract from the issue of the confederate traitors defending the infernal institution of African slavery.

[@11binfantryfollowmeus.army95]

@@zenever0Ohstfu….trans freak doesnt even know which bathroom to use…..

[@zenever0]

@@11binfantryfollowmeus.army95 Russian propaganda bot goes beep boop beep

[@Starpilot17]

This is great and all. Hal Moore truly deserved the honor. However, I will always call Ft Benning, Ft Benning.

[@burtoncapps5477]

What in the world are you doing? I'm from Columbus and have been on Fort Benning several times. The Cival War was a terrible time in our country when we tore ourselves apart. It's part of our history and we can't erase that fact. There was no reason to change the name and the state of Georgia should be ashamed.

[@JohnReynolds-dk2rk]

You should be ashamed that confederate traitors fired on the American flag for over four years resulting in the death of 700 thousand Americans. They are a disgrace to the American flag,its constitution and the founding fathers.

[@cosmicinsane516]

I’ve never understood why we allowed forts to be named after people who literally fought to overthrow our government. I can see why many confederate veterans were honored by their descendants, but we are now 5-6 generations past it, it’s time to move on. No one is re-writing history, we just changed a bunch of signs to name them after a more recent hero, rather than old traitors.

[@burtoncapps5477]

@@cosmicinsane516 ok so what's next to modernize? Kennedy was a great President who was killed by a nut but, he cheated on his wife with many women. Should we change everything named Kennedy? LBJ was a Hugh racist who modernized wellfair to secure the black vote. So no streets, towns, buildings with Johnson? Andrew Jackson was a horrible man who mistreated Indians but we have Jackson's name everywhere. I'm only saying if you start pulling strings at American history soon you will have no ball. We've done terrible things in our history but, scrubbing them away just allows the next generation to be ignorant.

[@zenever0]

@@burtoncapps5477Confederates betrayed the nation as traitors. They will not be honored.

[@thisismyrealname2860]

Are you that shortsighted, do you think any information is no longer available after this name change? There are probably far more people learning about history by googling this after reading about it. People getting so upset about no longer honoring slavery defenders have some obvious ties to personal racist feelings

[@MrsMusicInMe]

My Daddy and daughter, both Army Airborne Jumpmasters, trained at Fort Benning! Our memorials are being torn down and the truth is being lied about in the public square. There's a message in a memorial. What is that memorial saying to us? The message of a memorial is timely . "Those doomed to learn about history are doomed to repeat it." Winston Churchill

[@zenever0]

There is no forgetting that Confederates are traitors 🇺🇸

[@jeffreypinder9398]

Their parents were wonderful people. Their mother took an active role in family support while her husband, a military legend went to work in unfathomable conditions but did a remarkable job. Your family are heroes, but history is written, and it can't be unwritten. Changing military base names is just plain wrong. I was based in Ft. Bragg, N.C., not Ft. Liberty.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

They're renaming Ft Benning because Benning was a Confederate General.

[@zenever0]

A confederate traitor, yeah.

[@mississippihiker545]

@@zenever0 is that all you got?

[@arkybaldknobber8062]

@@mississippihiker545 ....He must be one of those BLM looters

[@zenever0]

@@arkybaldknobber8062 you must be one of those MAGA traitors

[@11binfantryfollowmeus.army95]

@@zenever0Says the transfreak….

[@grouchyoleguy]

I had honor of meeting them years ago but have serious issues with the name change of any military installation

[@karenminyard517]

Beautiful story, but it will always be Fort Benning to me because my Husband trained here before going to VN.

[@robertisham5279]

They should've left it as Fort Benning.

[@YoshiYosheda]

Well they didn't so cry.

[@jc9004]

True American patriot and hero.

[@Jack_Lee66]

It’s Ft. Benning and always will be for those of us ALUMNI

[@JulezWinnfield]

Ft. Moore was a better choice than Ft. Bragg being renamed Ft. Liberty.

[@larryholland7192]

Done for the right reasons!!

[@juliewoods6534]

My only concession to renaming the fort from Benning to More is one day they will rename it again.

[@georgeandrews1271]

It will always be Ft. Benning to me. Did basic training in Jan.1966 at Sand Hill

[@oldnatty61]

If we got to rename 'em this makes sense. Now Ft. Liberty is a whole different story. I vote Ft. Benavidez.