SALUTING FORT MOORE 

By David Perlstein | May 19, 2023

From November 1966 through May 1967, I attended Infantry Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia. On May 11, Fort Benning disappeared. It wasn’t a casualty of Congressional budget cutting but a tribute to decency.  Few candidates knew that the post was named for Henry L. Benning, a Confederate brigadier general. It’s hard to square…

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