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flag 2020: US military removes name Fort Rucker from Alabama base over past Confederate ties.

flag K. Denise Rucker Krepp, a career Navy civilian employee, reflects on her family's Confederate past and the renaming of a US military base, Fort Rucker, which was named after her distant cousin, Col. Edmund Rucker, in 1942. flag Rucker emphasizes the importance of recognizing and addressing America's dark past, and acknowledges her own family's legacy in the Confederacy. flag The US military removed the name Fort Rucker from the Alabama base in 2020.

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