Posted on 12/17/2013 11:24:11 AM PST by jazusamo
Revisionist history would remove portraits of Confederate legends
The U.S. Army War College, which molds future field generals, has begun discussing whether it should remove the portraits of Confederate generals, including Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
The college, nestled in rural Pennsylvania on the 500-acre Carlisle Barracks, is doing an inventory of all its paintings and photographs with an eye toward rehanging them in historical themes to tell a particular Army stories.
During the inventory, an unnamed official — not the commandant, Maj. Gen. Anthony A. Cucolo III — asked the administration why the college is honoring two generals who fought against the United States, according to college spokeswoman Carol Kerr.
“I do know at least one person has questioned why we would honor individuals who were enemies of the United States Army,” Ms. Kerr said. “There will be a dialogue when we develop the idea of what do we want the hallway to represent.”
She said one faculty member took down the portraits of Gen. Lee and Gen. Jackson, and put them on the floor as part of the inventory process. That gave rise to rumors that the paintings had been removed.
“This person was struck by the fact we have quite a few Confederate images,” she said, adding that the pictures were put back on a 3rd floor hallway.
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The more Civil War history I read, the higher Lee rises in my esteem, and the lower Jackson sinks. But there is no denying that they made a team that wrote the book on tactics for half a century afterward. That they elected to fight for the Confederacy prolonged the war and gave the South a fighting chance against the North’s superior numbers and infrastructure.
Even if it did turn out to be a forlorn hope ...
The country I live in, the one I grew up in, is not my own any more.
My only hope is that one day, the legacy of Obama and his ilk be so abused and erased.
I assume that the US government would then remove all references and portraits of FDR, since he was the one who approved Japanese-American internment at the start of WWII, the worst case of pure racism in American history.
Add Fort Benning to that list..and take down his portrait in what used to be the Officers Club before the PC social engineers turned it into another kumbaya conference center.
MLK was a cocaine snorting, whore screwing, plagiarizer. We shouldn’t have his name or statue anywhere. Wouldn’t want anyone to remember such a scoundrel.
If they take down Lee and Jackson as not being Americans does that mean that they acknowledge that the Southern USA is really not part of the “United States”?
And why would we support this government in any fashion whatsoever?
Shhh! Don’t give them any ideas.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
we are witnessing Cultural Genocide.
I wonder when the American version of the Taliban attempt to destroy the carving on Stone Mountain.
The hypocrisy of the left knows no limit.
In the name of diversity we must accept everyone else’s beliefs and cultures, but we are not allowed to have any of our own.
General Lee was said to have said the day General ‘Stonewall’ Jackson died, “My Right Arm has been severed!”
My family is kin to Stonewall Jackson
He was born in Clarksburg, (West) Virginia
Where both of my parents were raised
He was a loyal Virginian and served in the confederacy after Virginia joined the Confederate States, and West Virginia split with Virginia
I demand the oppressive socialist government of the USA allow us the people of Louisiana to vote for independence
He was also a defender of the Viet Cong and a slanderer of U.S. troops.
In before the South haters ping
“This person was struck by the fact we have quite a few Confederate images,” she [college spokeswoman Carol Kerr] said, adding that the pictures were put back on a 3rd floor hallway.The quote from spokeswoman Carol Kerr calling General Lee, “the guy we faced” and claiming, “his entire purpose in life was to destroy the nation as it was then conceived” is about as far from an informed discussion as you can get.
“He [Gen. Lee] was certainly not good for the nation. This is the guy we faced on the battlefield whose entire purpose in life was to destroy the nation as it was then conceived…This is all part of an informed discussion.”
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