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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FWP
So much for any sense of honor.
troll.
Two members of Black Kettle’s band, the hasf-breed sons of William Bent, of Taos fame, of the Cheyenne tribe, were going to Indian school in St Louis when the civil War broke out. They immediately joined the Confederate army and fought at Wilson’s Creek and Pea Ridge, and down in Mississippi.
Not long after, they were with their band of Cheyennes leading attacks against settlers in Colorado and Kansas.
When the weather got too cold to make war, they sued for peace till the winter of 1864 was over and were going to start the war over in 1865 when the grass got tall enough to support a war pony.
But Chivington, who hated Confederates and considered them “Red Rebels” cleaned their plow at Sand Creek.
This is what our modern history never teaches you about the Sand Creek Massacre.
So disgusting
A bit of irony…at reconciliation point
I guess todays woke crews is less forgiving than those who actually fought
So disgusting
A bit of irony…at reconciliation point
I guess todays woke crews is less forgiving than those who actually fought
I lived in Lee housing area at West Point. Or did I? Is that wiped out now. Did I not live there or am I a white nationalist? Man, so much to ponder.
Obscenity.
This wokeness shit is so rampant it’s getting hard to care anymore.
As any good commander should study Rommel, Guderian, Zhukov, Khan, or any other successful general.
They need to replace it with a statue of a peg-legged, lesbian tranny. The symbol of the New RAT Amerika.
“You magnificent bastard, I read your book!”
One of the better lines in the movie.
One of many great lines.
He turned and fought against the United States. I hadn’t known that. No wonder they want to take the picture down. I’m sure he’ll get over it.
I see you shill for the Woke in addition to Pfizer, and Ukraine.
Busy man. Or they, them, we..........Pick a pronoun.
Woke cowards trying to vicariously fire the final shots of a war that ended 160 years ago.
Stupid, ignorant and evil.
And Lee’s quote about honor will be stripped from the academy’s Honor Plaza.
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Oh, the sad irony.
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