Posted on 05/04/2010 7:20:28 PM PDT by Man50D
A widely regarded Southern symbol of pride and states' rights is standing in the way of would-be Marines in their quest to serve their country a Confederate battle flag.
Straight out of high school, one 18-year-old Tennessee man was determined to serve his country as a Marine. His friend said he passed the pre-enlistment tests and physical exams and looked forward with excitement to the day he would ship out to boot camp.
But there would be no shouting drill instructors, no rigorous physical training and no action-packed stories for the aspiring Marine to share with his family.
Shortly before he was scheduled to leave Nashville for boot camp, the Marine Corps rejected him.
Now, the young man, who wishes to remain unnamed and declined to be interviewed, has chosen to return to school and is no longer an aspiring Marine.
"I think he just wants to let it go," said former Marine 1st Lt. Gene Andrews, a friend of the man and patriotic Southerner who served in Vietnam from 1968 through 1971. Andrews is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a group of male descendents of Confederate soldiers. He counseled the young man when he decided to become a Marine.
"He had been talking to me, and he was all fired up about joining," he told WND. "He asked my opinion of it, and I just tried to tell him the truth, good points and bad points."
When the young recruit didn't go to boot camp, Andrews learned of his rejection based on his tattoo of the Confederate battle flag on his shoulder.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
We had a young veteran of Gulf War 1 at work. He started dating some woman and got himself a tattoo on his shoulder with a heart and her name. A month later he caught her with someone else. The idiot took the tattoo off with a belt sander.
Why are people that dumb?
can you believe the jerks on this forum?
and they wonder why we don’t cotton much to them
you ever watch those reality logging shows?
look at how those yankees treat one another screaming and cursing and trash talking and being just plain nasty to one another ..but of course all talk
and then look how their southern counterparts act in the same job....it defines our differences of behavior and respect in the proper sense of the word...they will never be like us...the good ones who come here become more like us than us like them
they will always be coarse, crude, hypocritical and self righteously indignant progressives that we will have to deal with again (some of them) one day
BTW, after the war was over one of the acts taken was to PAY postmasters for their lost pay during the war.
Me a Yankee? The reason I despise the Confederacy so much is the way it mistreated my Southern family and region.
Not Bad. It takes knowledge to know what kicked it off. The slow methodical regime of the Mississippi River also is a big part.
Please explain.
“Yup, the Confederacy was a foreign enemy that attacked the United States of America.”
Not according to the offical record: The confederate States never left the union, therefore, they are not, and never were, foreign.
Besides, the Marines allows Mexican flags and swatiska, both were foreign enemies of the USA.
“Hopefully the kid will take history classes and learn that the Confederacy is not a fit symbol for “Southern pride”.
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Only in your liberal yankee mind.
“Marines have high standards.”
So, when will they be getting rid of the illegal aliens in their ranks?
Exactly! If it’s good enough for the state of GA, than it’s good enough for the marines.
“He could could explain the the Stars and Bars commemorates his ancestors who were stripped of their rights and property because that they lived on the wrong side of the Mason-Dixon Line.
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That would also be the US flag where the North held slaves during the entire time of the Civil War. Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation didnt free a single slave held by the northern states. Slaves were not free in the US until the 13th amendment. Sorry you learned your false history in public schools.
Pfft. The best thing Lincoln did was get shot in the back of the head.
What happened in 1812?
One murdered by the home guard. One a victim of extortion by the local reb dictator. One threatened with hanging so he had to take to the hills. One a Methodist preacher persecuted by the local bosses because he did not preach the gospel of the Confederacy. The true Confederate believers went bravely off to manfully battle the Yankees but they left behind a bad element who too often abused their neighbors for fun and profit. No wonder the Yankee army was greeted as liberators by many in Southern towns.
The War of Northern Aggression was started by the North.
Abraham Lincoln ultimately ordered the deaths, starvation and homelessness of a lot of men, women and children in the name of big government. I understand you have sensitivity issues over the man, but that’s a personal problem that you’ll need to balance with some reality and facts.
Hate say it, but you're right. Once discharged, half the jobs say, "Prefer bilingual Spanish".....
The young people are screwed in the U.S.
That was worth repeating.
Too bad these confederates havent gotten over it.
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Nor the Trail of Tears.
We will survive as a coherent culture long after the US has disintegrated from its own policies.
Deo Vindice.
I am done with your conversation as no man in the US will cover that BS. Good Luck and keep God close to your peace.
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