This story has been updated with additional information. Vernon Parish's Fort Johnson, which had its name changed less than two years ago after a federal commission suggested new names for military ...

In 2023, when the U.S. Department of Defense changed of the name of Fort Polk to remove the stain of honoring a Confederate, slaveholding Episcopal bishop, many in Louisiana railed against the move.

FORT POLK, La. (KPLC) - This morning at Fort Polk, soldiers, first responders, and the community marked the anniversary of the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Today’s remembrance connected the ...