Posted on 04/25/2020 1:44:08 PM PDT by Retain Mike
The Marine Corps' top general has issued a rallying cry for leathernecks to unite around symbols that bring them together, rather than those that divide, as he moves to prohibit the Confederate flag on all installations.
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The Confederate battle flag has become divisive for people who embrace a modern, popular political agenda. A fashionable consensus has emerged of those deciding the existence of Americans, who served in the Confederate armed forces of 150 years ago, inflicts emotional damage on them today. It also includes those, like General Berger, who adjust their actions to validate these perceptions of wounded identity. The instigators reside as fragments of a swarm trading away adulthood and dignity for a prestige lacking dreams to pursue or accomplishments to celebrate. The subservient, enabling parties receive effortless, addictive compassion as the drug of choice.
The Stars and Stripes and Stars and Bars decorate the graves of those who should be honored for having resolved an abandoned political issue. Britain abolished slavery throughout the Empire in 1833, but here politicians ignored the precedents of our founding documents, the accomplishments of Britain, and the rising influence of the infallibility and intransigence of abolitionists and planters. The myopic ideologies of these two factions stumbled us into the Civil War.
Whether referenced in statutes as Civil War (Union and Confederate), Spanish-American, WW I, WW II, Korean, Vietnam, or Desert Storm veterans, I maintain all are also brothers in arms for whom the term American veteran applies. When I visited Arlington Cemetery, I walked by the grave of Confederate unknown soldiers who served under the Stars and Bars. I think I will hold to this now unpopular position.
Partial Bibliography:
The Liberal Mind by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D.
Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen
Slavery Abolition Act 1833 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833
The Case Against Liberal Compassion https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-case-against-liberal-compassion/
Confederate Soldiers Are Considered U.S. Veterans Under Federal Law-Truth! https://www.truthorfiction.com/confederate-soldiers-are-considered-u-s-veterans-under-federal-law/ Confederate Soldiers – American Veterans by Act of Congress https://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/04/03/confederate-soldiers-american-veterans-by-act-of-congress/ https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2011/04/14/confederate-soldiers-are-american-veterans-by-act-of-congress/
Whatever his excuse is it’s unacceptable.
Get rid of that damned Im a queer rainbow flag, too!!!!!
You want to bet someone told the General what the decision was going to be, whether he liked it or not.
Like the fag flag? That blasphemous rag should never see the inside of a US military installation.
“Britain abolished slavery throughout the Empire in 1833,”
Indians in the Raj and Coolies all over Asia would be be fascinated to know the were “free”.
Marine at Shuri Castle during the battle of Okinawa
http://www.confederatedigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Marine_Raises_FlagShuri_Palace.jpg
Get rid of that damned Im a queer rainbow flag, too!!!!!
I’m so sick of this crap! Is there anyone out there that will stand up and decry this insanity?? I know they’re out there but states need to make it against the law to remove statues that are offensive (or should I say ALL Southern Statues) and any other Southern symbols that trigger these pansies and allow the revisionists pimps to follow through!
The USMC General Officer Corps is rife with pussies, cowards and politically correct globalists with JFK skool of Government credentials.
He will have no problem with females in the infantry, homo men kissing each other, trannies, rainbow flags, etc.
The 0311’s deserve better.
“I walked by the grave of Confederate unknown soldiers who served under the Stars and Bars. I think I will hold to this now unpopular position.”
I fully understand it. I serve 22 years under the American Flag with multiply deployments. There will be a US Flag on my grave when I pass.
Will I have to worry about my grave being desecrated because of the Flag on my grave marker is consider as a hate symbol 50 years in the future?
“You want to bet someone told the General what the decision was going to be, whether he liked it or not.”
Probably, but if he wasn’t a coward he could have resigned.
My first thought was this is going to hurt recruitment efforts in the southern states. There is still a very strong sense of attachment to that flag passed down generation to generation.
The Corps. traditionally, has been the most successful recruiting in those states.
Son is a Marine and he has a confederate shirt and flag, and he said he has no intentions of throwing them away
The overall American commander during the battle of Okinawa, Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., was the son of a Confederate general.
That MIGHT be a “feature” rather than a negative in their traitorous minds. Sodom-on-the-Potomac is well aware and does not really like the fact that the pointy end of the spear in our ground combat forces are from Texas and the south.
That’s dandy. Stars and bars, not so much. It’s friggin’ history.
Doubtful. Few people are that attached to Confederate flag, and this story isn't going to be remembered a year or two down the road.
Ban ALL flags except The American Flag. Old Glory, The Stars and Bars.
What in hell other flag should be displayed on U.S. property/bases?
Personally I like the Confederate Battle Flag, I always have. I never regarded it as “racist” (its a FLAG). Although, a lot of people do.
There is ZERO reason for a Confederate Battle Flag to be displayed on a U.S. Military installation, or any other (rainblow) flag.
Get rid of ALL flags other than the American flag and I’m okay with it.
That’s a very good question. The United States flag is viewed by many in some regions as a symbol of oppression. Will this be banned someday?
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