For decades, the Pentagon has venerated Confederate officers who betrayed their oaths and waged war against their country to uphold slavery by placing their names on property from military bases to ships.
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"There's a reason we don't have a Fort Benedict Arnold," Pittard said, referring to the Revolutionary War officer who sold out to British forces and whose name has become synonymous with treachery. The Navy likely will be included. The Maury, an oceanographic survey ship named for Navy Cdr. Matthew Fontaine Maury, probably will receive a new name, Howard recently told reporters. Maury left the U.S. Navy for the Confederacy.
A display featuring Roy Benavidez is seen on Sept. 12, 2006, at the Wharton County Historical Museum, in El Campo, Texas.On May 2, 1968, Benavidez volunteered to rescue a 12-man team trapped in dense jungle in Vietnam. Dropped by helicopter, he ran to the men through gunfire and took wounds to his right leg, face and head. He rallied the surviving soldiers, dragging and carrying the wounded and dead to the aircraft. The helicopter crashed after its pilot was killed.
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, right, with Vietnamese Lt. General Nguyen Huu An during a meeting at the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam in 1993.
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