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Demeaning Our Military Heritage
This country owes as much of its enviable martial heritage to the South at places like Chancellorsville as to the North at places like Gettysburg. But now to serve popular new morality, the House would tell the Department of Defense to banish any mention of those tremendous feats of arms and the soldiers who fought, if they served in the Confederacy. For 1,500 days, Americans killed Americans until over 700,000 died in battles, hospitals, and prisons, and this country in due course recognized everyone’s determination and resolve by legally defining all as veterans.
In responding to this latest initiative, I quote Major General 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?”
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.
Congress declared Confederate soldiers to be American soldiers.