Trump's Move to Restore Old Army Base Names Highlights Nebraska Man's Heroics at 18 in World War I

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For more than a century, Fort Benning's name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the name of the Army base in Georgia two years ago, but now the Trump administration is set on restoring the familiar one -- this time for a different Benning. The new namesake is Fred Benning, a Nebraska native awarded the military's second-highest honor for his battlefield courage as an 18-year-old corporal in 1918, near the end of World War I. The military noted that he

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