Word: bragg
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According to police, Burden and James died because three soldiers stationed at Fort Bragg, the huge Army base adjacent to Fayetteville, decided it was a good night to commit a hate crime. Private Malcolm Wright, 21, Private Burmeister, 20, and Specialist Meadows, 21, had been drinking and nightclubbing when they allegedly drove to Campbell Terrace to harass blacks. The soldiers, members of the 82nd Airborne Division, had reportedly gone on such excursions before. This time, as Meadows waited in the car, Wright and Burmeister allegedly picked their quarry at random, accosted the couple and killed them. Meadows has been charged...
GUNNING DOWN FORT BRAGG...
...sniper hiding in the woods opened fire on 1,300 Army paratroopers at Fort Bragg as they were about to set out on a predawn exercise run. One soldier was killed, and about 20 were wounded. Other soldiers seized and subdued the suspect, Sergeant William Kreutzer, a comrade at the North Carolina Army base. He was being questioned by Army officials...
...Alvin L. Bragg '95, who served as BSA president before Clarke, said last spring that conservative blacks tend to feel uncomfortable participating in the organization's political activities...
...Republicans have told us they wouldn't be comfortable in the BSA," Bragg said...