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.
Why? Rommel was a hero to the surviving German Army. Hitler ordered him either killed or allowed to commit suicide for his actions in the July 20 plot to kill Hitler and organize a military coup over the SS and other element of the evil State.
Rommel is hero-because they know and have known the truth of what he did to little lunatic Austrian corporal who brought down their country for Socialism. Not Germany but a pagan, moronic meme ridden nothing to do with German history— a fake JUNTA which had many Generals murdered to protect Hitler. Another- Admiral Canaris who was executed in a concentration camp right along with Dietrich Bonhoffer.
The autocrat Hitler reminds many of JoeBama the Socialist Banker of Delaware who doesn’t love this country at all. Him and his pal Obamaumao (Mau Mau were in Kenya, and Mao- a Chinese psychopathic Communist. These tell who obama is and will always be, along with corrupt as hell.)
Sorry, Red Badger— the rewrite of the posted from GP has the wrong word throughout. Not the grammar police— but appreciate the history being even noticed, despite the verbage. This is the continuation of the removal of American history by truly stupid, and intentional Communist interlopers. Arlington is filled with many as said- descendants of Confederate officers— who served honorably in the US military in two world wars. Including General Patton, and his son.
Tell me the difference between the war for American independence and, the war for southern independence from a legal point of view.
> Why? Rommel was a hero to the surviving German Army. <
I suppose they needed a relatively clean hero, and Rommel fit the bill. I will not begrudge them that.
But it’s worth noting that Rommel had no problem with Hitler until Germany started to lose. So I don’t see Rommel as quite as pure as others might.
Back in the day when we celebrated 160 years of tradition unhampered by progress, the Corps of Cadets would have resigned en masse.
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Yes! segregated by Wilson our former Democrat KKK president.
Wrong— Rommel always had a problem with Hitler, especially after N. Africa. As all the Prussian aristocracy generals did against the loonie little pervo corporal from Austria.
The Prussians who love their country largely had issues with Hitler. He fired a lot of them, and executed many including Klaus von Staufenberg, and the entire regular Army generals in the July 20 Plot. Total of 5000 people were murdered in and out of civilian offices, and the rest all inside the Wermacht and a few SS even. It is an amazing, bold and brave thing they tried— to save their country from destruction, by Soviets and the Allies— so they could treat with them. This included Admiral Canaris the spymaster genius.
Robert E. Lee’s picture should remain there. It’s history plain and simple.
That being said the south fought to preserve that “peculiar institution” called chattel slavery. Robert E. Lee fought for the south. Lee was wrong and I am glad the south was soundly and completely defeated. The south was punished for their wickedness and its part of American History.
I will agree that Rommel had trouble with Hitler after the defeat in North Africa. And I will also agree that the July 20 conspirators were incredibly brave men.
My point was more about the motivation of those men. Yes, some of those generals were repulsed by the Nazis, and were against Hitler from the beginning. But most of them were okay with Hitler until he started losing. Only then did they start plotting against him.
The July 20 conspirators wanted to make peace with the Western allies after they took power. They would give up France as part of that agreement, but not Poland.
That was very unrealistic on their part, of course. It’s telling that they wanted to keep all of Poland, which was gained by Hitler’s aggression.
For one, he didn’t predict Government sponsorship of genitalia mutilation of children..
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