Posted on 06/16/2020 6:53:58 AM PDT by knighthawk
“This has evolved to good vs evil, imho!”
Agreed
I am getting SO f%&$#ing FED UP with these gutless people in authority or leadership constantly caving in to these professional victims.
There’s just a constant drumbeat of these disgusting articles.
Jesus H, isn’t there ANYONE out there with some testicles?
[Takes meds]
I don’t know why you would have a stained-glass figure in a church of a secular leader like this to begin with, regardless of the other stigma attached to it. It shouldn’t have taken this current environment to finally realize it needed to be taken down.
Republican WildPussycat.
Fixed it.
Right, I don’t understand that at all. And the fact they are only removing it now and it didn’t occur to them for so many years that wasn’t appropriate doesn’t sound entirely sincere.
Always can count on you, central_va, to consistently not allow any amount of truth, fact, or common sense affect what you say.
Two of the greatest military figures in American history. Talk about tragedy. Jackson, struck down during the War, on his death bed is reported to have said, “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.” And Lee, many years later, on his deathbed, was right back in the action of the War, and reportedly crying out, “Tell (A.P.) Hill he must come up. Strike the tent!” Nothing more “American Heritage” than that.
It was the day that the “Personnel Department” turned into “Human Resources” and we had to take our girlie calendars down.
August 9, 1960
Dear Dr. Scott:
Respecting your August 1 inquiry calling attention to my often expressed admiration for General Robert E. Lee, I would say, first, that we need to understand that at the time of the War between the States the issue of secession had remained unresolved for more than 70 years. Men of probity, character, public standing and unquestioned loyalty, both North and South, had disagreed over this issue as a matter of principle from the day our Constitution was adopted.
General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was a poised and inspiring leader, true to the high trust reposed in him by millions of his fellow citizens; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history.
From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation’s wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.
Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall.
Sincerely,
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Give it time.
Probably because he was a devout Christian and lived an exemplary Christian life. The prayer that he said daily, which President Truman would later pray, is as follows:
“Help me to be, to think, to act what is right because it is right; make me truthful, honest, and honorable in all things; make me intellectually honest for the sake of right and honor and without thought of reward to me.”
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