Posted on 12/22/2022 3:48:39 PM PST by Robwin
Before turning against the U.S. military to command the Confederate army, Robert E. Lee served as the superintendent of West Point, the hallowed military academy that produced patriots like Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower.
But in the coming days, the storied academy will take down a portrait of Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform from its library, where it has been hanging since the 1950s and place it in storage. It will also remove the stone bust of the Civil War's top southern general at Reconciliation Plaza. And Lee’s quote about honor will be stripped from the academy’s Honor Plaza.
The moves are part of a Department of Defense directive issued in October ordering the academy to address racial injustice and do away with installations that “commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy.”
That includes a trio of bronze panels, measuring 11 feet tall and 5 feet wide, that depict significant events and figures in U.S. history, including Benjamin Franklin and Clara Barton. But the oversized plaques, dedicated in 1965, not only featured Lee and other supporters of the Confederacy but an image of an armed man in a hood, with “Ku Klux Klan” written below.
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Gawd, where does this sh*t end?
It makes them weep and gnash their teeth, and scream out.
With the destruction of the Republic, and the installation of a never-ending dictatorship of the Left.
Lots of southern boys join the military. Maybe not so much anymore after erasure of their history.
OR it ends after ALL these Leftists are sent to Hell with Extreme Prejudice.
I’m so sick and tired of this Woke Crap.
Gulags.
When people start doing exactly what offends the woke more.
If they want a statue down, put up another.
If they want the name of something changed, take back some other name previously changed.
When they say you offend them say “You are welcome!” with a big smile.
And so forth.
It never ends.
What can one expect with fat boy little willy Milley where he is?
Dig that hatchet back up, boys.
I should have prefaced my post with: If we don’t stop it,
SPJNK.
Getting the place ready for the Chinese takeover without firing a shot.
How dare they remove monuments to traitors and klansmen!
General and President Dwight D Eisenhower revered Robert E Lee!!!!
https://www.civilwarprofiles.com/dwight-d-eisenhower-in-defense-of-robert-e-lee/
Why should West Point side with vile wokesters instead of Eisenhower and Lee? REALLY!!!!
We all are....has to be the doing of Austin and/or Milley...The administration knew when the appointment of Austin was made on the basis of COLOR ALONE, that this would happen! Milley was another of Trump’s MISTAKES so no excuse there.
How dare they remove monuments to traitors and klansmen!
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Indeed! Lee’s statue and quotes should be replaced by those of Rosa Parks and Harvey Milk! Damn all these “traitors”! /s
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