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He know about so many Forts - yet, he did not serve a day in his life, nor visit anyone?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-fort-names_n_65ae192ee4b006594e02290b
Trump Chooses Absolutely Baffling New Topic For Latest Rambling Aside

Donald Trump’s speech on Sunday took an unexpected turn when he went on a tangent about the names of U. S. military installations.

“We won world wars out of forts,” he said at an event in Rochester, New Hampshire. “Fort Benning, Fort This, Fort That, many forts. They changed the name, we won wars out of these forts, they changed the name, they changed the name of the forts. A lot of people aren’t too happy about that.”

Trump then essentially repeated what he’d just said.

“They changed the name of a lot of our forts. We won two world wars out of a lot of these forts and they changed the name,” he said. “It’s unbelievable.”

Nine U. S. military installations named for Confederate generals have been renamed to honor people who didn’t fight against the United States.

The Fort Benning that Trump mentioned was named for Henry L. Benning, who NPR noted was not just a Confederate general but a “virulent white supremacist.”

The Georgia installation was renamed Fort Moore last year in honor of Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and his wife, Julia Compton Moore, whom Military. com called “one of the Army’s most influential couples.”

He know about so many Forts - yet, he did not serve a day in his life, nor visit anyone?
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