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Trump says he's restoring the original Confederate names of these Army bases — but with new namesakes

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President Trump announced Tuesday that he will restore several more Army base names that originally honored Confederate military figures.

Under this process, the bases won't be formally named after Confederates who took up arms against the U.S. during the Civil War , but instead after other service members who share similar names.

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