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West Point moves to vanquish Confederate symbols from campus
ABC News ^ | December 22, 2022 | BOBBY CAINA CALVAN

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: bidenteamnews; bobbycainacalvan; confederacy; mentalmidgets; politicalcorrectness; rewritinghistory; westpoint; wokemilitary
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To: kiryandil

It’s worse than a troll. The babbler is a Dick Cheney loving liberal.


41 posted on 12/22/2022 6:59:51 PM PST by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: Rummyfan
Gawd, where does this sh*t end?

It "ends" with the (attempted) genocide of White people.

The racist, homosexualist, socialist left wants to kill you. No exaggeration, no joke.

Plan accordingly.

42 posted on 12/22/2022 7:01:23 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ealgeone

I once read of an exchange between an American APC crewman and a captured Iraqi soldier after the Battle of 73 Easting.

The EPW was puzzled that the Americans had a portrait of Rommel in their Bradley. “Why”, he asked, “do you have a portrait of your enemy in your vehicle?”.

The American replied “If you had spent more time studying Rommel, you might not be my prisoner ...”


43 posted on 12/22/2022 7:07:49 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Good one.


44 posted on 12/22/2022 8:18:27 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: babble-on; All

It is appropriate that you adulate that corrupt and evil human being Dick Cheney one of the authors of that everlasting disgrace the 1993 Iraq War.


45 posted on 12/22/2022 8:19:01 PM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: NorthMountain; All

Exactly. And Glbo-Homo wants a US military full of queers, deviants, hate filled nuts and ethnic terrorists who will be happy to kill whitey the way the Turks killed the Armenians.


46 posted on 12/22/2022 8:21:29 PM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: Bishop_Malachi; All

A statue of George Jackson with appropriate quotations from his book, ‘Blood In My Eye’ would be appropriate. In this tome he calls for genocide of whitey


47 posted on 12/22/2022 8:25:51 PM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: Robwin

IIRC....Robert E. Lee is the only cadet in West Point history to graduate without ever receiving a single demerit. Douglas comes in a close second having only received one. I shouldn’t mention this they will cancel the demerit system.


48 posted on 12/23/2022 5:05:27 AM PST by Don@VB (THE NEW GREEN DEAL IS JUST THE OLD RED DEAL)
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To: Don@VB

Sorry, that’s Douglas MacArthu.


49 posted on 12/23/2022 5:06:45 AM PST by Don@VB (THE NEW GREEN DEAL IS JUST THE OLD RED DEAL)
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To: Don@VB

MacArthur


50 posted on 12/23/2022 5:07:36 AM PST by Don@VB (THE NEW GREEN DEAL IS JUST THE OLD RED DEAL)
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To: ealgeone

“I certainly hope we study the tactics of the Southern generals”

That’s not how this works anymore. Cancelling or airbrushing our history does myriad things. Opens old wounds. Divides people. Provides a platform to spread more needless hate and division.

They claim they are being virtuous, but they know better, and they also know what they are trying to accomplish here. Either that, or they are just following orders.

History is sometimes complicated as well as ugly. All of that goes out the window now.

Anyway, they are throwing the baby out with the bath water, so to speak. We can study tacticians without signing on to their ideology.

One of the greatest generals of the war, fought on the Confederate side, had absolutely no particular military experience whatsoever. As in none. Can’t remember his name, but he started out as a Private and worked his way up. Started kicking ass, and they (used to anyway) study his tactics at West Point.

I think if people look at all the stuff they are doing (and not doing) for decades now, is carefully calculated simply to reduce the fighting effectiveness and cohesiveness of the American military. It really isn’t any more complicated than that.

Our enemies have studied our tactics and methods too, ironically enough.


51 posted on 12/23/2022 12:43:26 PM PST by Freedom4US
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