I don’t participate in “it was about slavery - no, it wasn’t” threads, but I want to comment on this event.
The decision to end reconstruction, welcome home the “wayward sisters” with their honor and their traditions intact, even within the US military, was one of the smartest and most generous acts by a victor to a vanquished foe in history - and it allowed 99 years of American growth, prosperity, and victory in wars.
The decision to revoke all that coincides with severe American decline, defeats in war, chaos at home, and surging crimes against the white majority.
This is just the final act in this drama, and I pray our soldiers, sailors, and marines may be spared battle under the DEI command structure, where their defeat is a near-certainty.
Yes, Appomattox was amazing. Then Lee worked to work twoard reconciliation. It was his greatest work.