Posted on 02/23/2016 5:48:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
This is my take on the subject and I actually got the letter published.
Demeaning Our Military Heritage
This country owes as much of its enviable martial heritage to the South as the North. But now to serve popular morality, we must banish from history the Confederate battle flag and those who served under it. Responding to these assertions, I quote Joshua Chamberlain who received the Confederate surrender at Appomattox.
“Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood: men whom neither toils and sufferings, nor the fact of death, nor disaster, nor hopelessness could bend from their resolve; standing before us now, thin, worn, and famished, but erect, and with eyes looking level into ours, waking memories that bound us together as no other bond;—was not such manhood to be welcomed back into a Union so tested and assured?â€
Winston Churchill commented concerning American entry into WW II that victory was then assured, because our Civil War demonstrated the tenacity required to defeat the Nazis.
Joshua Chamberlain
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joshua_Chamberlain
Son of a son of a son of a Confederate soldier and proud of it . Prettiest flag in the USA , imho
Will be visiting your great State in April for a week and this news makes it even better.
I will be sure to fly my Confederate flag when I am there.
About time some people stood up against P.C.!
Too cute! Louie is NOT happy with you at all!
I need to go to my Safe Space
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