{"id":18291,"date":"2025-06-22T20:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T20:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18291"},"modified":"2025-06-22T20:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T20:20:32","slug":"hegseth-says-renaming-military-bases-after-civil-war-soldiers-who-fought-for-slavery-is-important-for-morale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18291","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth says renaming military bases after Civil War soldiers who fought for slavery is \u2018important for morale\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Defense Secretary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/trump-coup-america-la-protests-b2768566.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>&nbsp;insisted Wednesday that military veterans and active-duty troops urged the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-says-nobody-knows-m-143951281.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump administration<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/trump-restore-confederate-generals-robert-210307857.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rename American military bases<\/a>&nbsp;after Confederate traitors who took up arms against the government to defend the enslavement of Black people \u2014 a move the secretary claims is \u201cimportant for morale.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/hegseth-says-renaming-military-bases-185942522.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/hegseth-says-renaming-military-bases-185942522.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted Wednesday that military veterans and active-duty troops urged the Trump administration to rename American military bases after Confederate traitors who took up arms against the government to defend the enslavement of Black people \u2014 a move the secretary claims is \u201cimportant for morale.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/hegseth-says-renaming-military-bases-185942522.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1395,221,259,170],"class_list":["post-18291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-civil-war","tag-donald-trump","tag-military","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18292,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18291\/revisions\/18292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}