Fred Benning, a Nebraska native awarded the military's second-highest honor for his battlefield courage as an 18-year-old corporal near the end of World War I, is an Army base's new

Cpl. Fred Benning was a World War I hero who became a baker, a successful businessman, and the mayor of Neligh, Nebraska.

Fort Benning's new namesake, Fred Benning, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his battlefield courage

The Flat Iron Bar and Grill in Atkinson is on the Lasso Lane tour. The 70 stops on the 2025 Nebraska Passport Program are divided into 10 tours. “It was a great year. We had a lot of fun things going on,” Johnson said. “Participation-wise it was really great.”

For more than a century, Fort Benning's name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the name of the Army base in Georgia two years ago, but now the Trump administration is set on restoring the familiar one — this time for a different Benning.

The military noted that he later served as mayor of the small Nebraska town of Neligh, but it did not mention that he ran a bakery, opted to have his Distinguished Service Cross mailed to him ...

The military noted that he later served as mayor of the small Nebraska town of Neligh, but it did not mention that he ran a bakery, opted to have his Distinguished Service Cross mailed to him ...