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| Ranger foundation sues Pentagon to have Confederate ‘Gray Ghost' put back on Fort Moore monument |
| 2024-12-12 |
| [Stars and Stripes] ATLANTA — A foundation suing to have a Confederate officer’s name reinstated to the Army’s Ranger Hall of Fame and memorial at Fort Moore, Ga., will get the chance to make their case to a federal judge on Thursday. The hearing in Columbus, which is just outside of the Army base, will examine the merits of the National Ranger Memorial Foundation’s lawsuit, which seeks to reinstate the name of Col. John S. Mosby on the installation’s Ranger Memorial and as a member of the Ranger Hall of Fame. The foundation argues in the suit, which was initially filed in September 2023, that Fort Moore officials overreached in removing Mosby’s name from the memorial last year as part of a sweeping, yearslong effort to strip Defense Department assets of names linked to the Confederacy. Barry Todd, the foundation’s president, said base leaders overstepped their authority in removing Mosby’s name. The Ranger Hall of Fame and the Ranger Memorial, he said Tuesday, are managed and overseen by private entities, including his group, which built and maintains them through private donations. "The memorial was built and paid for by the Ranger community, all through donations," Todd said. "The Army ... in 1992 and 1993 said they would accept it as a conditional gift, on the condition that they don’t have to pay for [it]. So, there’s no taxpayer money at all toward the Ranger memorial." He said the overarching view in the Ranger community is Mosby’s name should remain. Related: Fort Moore: 2024-07-12 Officials at Fort Liberty on Thursday distanced themselves from a slide shown to soldiers during a briefing on Wednesday that featured a pro-life organization as an example of a terrorist group. Fort Moore: 2024-06-28 Biden Lies in Debate, Says No US Troops Killed During His Presidency Fort Moore: 2023-12-14 Fort Benning Is Now Fort Moore |
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