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You know , my family grew up at Fort

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Bragg and my girls grew up here and ,

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um , have a long history here at Fort

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Bragg . And then of course , General

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mcneill called me and asked me if I'd

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work on the committee with him . And so

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I was able to attend every one of the

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meetings , the many town halls , I also

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attended some of the uh town halls and

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things that Joe mcneill was not at . Uh ,

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we went over numerous names and we kept

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coming up with the problem of , ok ,

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how do we pick one person ? Uh There's

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so , so much diversity on Fort Bragg

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and diversity in people , diversity in

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units . And , um , so we're really

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wrestling with a person . And even

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before , um , the gold star mother

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brought up the Liberty name , we were

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talking about maybe a value or

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something of that nature . And when she

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bought the up the name Liberty and the

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comments that had already made of what

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she said , the whole room kind of got

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quiet . She pointed out

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and I believe this was in the meeting

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in which she was physically present ,

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not the one that she was uh on

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electronically . But she simply pointed

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out that there was risk in picking a

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name because here is the problem

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with picking a name . You're going to

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leave a lot of good people behind and

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you can't explain why you did . And

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then she said for me , I think you have

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to name it after what the men and women

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of Fort Bragg stand for . And I think

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liberty fairly represents what they

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stand for . So some people would always

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probably be Fort Bragg . You know ,

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it's , it's not about the past . It's

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just what they're used to and what the

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name was , uh , probably won't change ,

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but eventually I think liberty will

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take over and it'll just be for liberty

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and people will be fine with that and

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it won't be a problem .