Gee, WHERE HAVE WE SEEN THIS DESTRUCTION OF HISTORIC RECORDS BEFORE?
Posted on 12/27/2022 7:32:38 AM PST by Red Badger
As a response to a federal order by the Department of Defense, West Point is starting to remove all Confederate statues and portraits from its campus.
West Point Superintendent Lieutenant General Steve Gilland broke the news and stated “During the holiday break, we will begin a multi-phased process, in accordance with Department of Defense directives, to remove, rename or modify assets and real property at the United States Military Academy and West Point installation that commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy or those who voluntarily served with the Confederacy”.
One of the most notable Confederate portraits that will be removed is General Robert E. Lee’s portrait.
Besides Lee’s portrait, a stone image of him along with several plaques of his likeness will also be removed.
Most people only know Robert E. Lee as the General of the Confederate Army but before choosing to side with the Confederacy he served 32 years in the US military.
Lee started off his military career by being the top graduate at West Point and made a name for himself during the Mexican-American War where at one point he even worked side by side with General Ulysses S. Grant.
After the Mexican American War, Lee was later named as the Superintendent of West Point.
In the years leading up to the Civil War, Lee condemned any states succeeding from the Union and stated they were betraying the Founding Fathers.
Advisor to President Lincoln Union Army General Winfield Scott even requested Robert E. Lee to be the new general of the Union Army.
Lee, however, would deny the opportunity and would eventually resign from the US military in order to join forces with the Confederate Army shortly after Virginia succeeded from the Union.
His reason was he didn’t want to betray his native state of Virginia.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Following CCCP tradition.
My only consolation is I believe that man’s real history is recorded in Heaven, out of the reach of these goons.
Just plain wrong.
I’m actually for it. Lee’s portrait should not be defiled by hanging at this woke LGBT stronghold that is seeding our Army with leftists. Pains me to say this. I had much love for West Point.
Totally against this, destroying history?
National disunity to follow.
Oh wait, we’re already there.
The brainwashing continues as reality becomes more and more muddled. America is becoming unrecognizable.
There should be a special losers gallery for those who fought against the United States of America and lost.
Preparing for Year Zero - where the Confederacy never existed.
Gee, WHERE HAVE WE SEEN THIS DESTRUCTION OF HISTORIC RECORDS BEFORE?
Theyre also removing support for the military. Mission Accomplished!
An American hero ...
And another from 1984:
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
IIRC, Lee quit the war briefly to go execute his father-in-law’s will and free his slaves.
Looking at your short posting history, I think you should head back over to Democrat Underground...
Prescient much!
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