Gee, WHERE HAVE WE SEEN THIS DESTRUCTION OF HISTORIC RECORDS BEFORE?
“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.
Just plain wrong.
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 ...
IIRC, Lee quit the war briefly to go execute his father-in-law’s will and free his slaves.
Imagine how much greater was hatred of the confederacy as we move back in time closer to the Civil War.
And yet the nation and its people were able to understand and admire Robert E. Lee rather than expunge his history.
But the new leftists and racists destroy everything. They probably hate Grant for his perceived failures after the war, than they hate Lee.
Will a new administration have the balls to bring back our history?
I don’t think that before the current radicalism, black Americans had any hatred for REL.
But we’re living in a more ignorant time.
“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.”
This isn’t actually completely accurate. Lee wanted NO PART of the war. He didn’t support the Union or the Confederates. He was drawn in to the war by the Union invasion of Virginia, and the death of the Confederate commander. He ‘advised’ but would not participate prior to this. He was NOT pro-slavery and the plantation with slaves, Arlington, was owned by his wife. All this happened to people (hear interview with ‘Julius Howell’) when people rarely traveled more than a few miles from home and had no ‘concept’ of central Government.
Lee hunted down John Brown, fought in the Mexican American war, was against slavery, taught at West Point. He was trapped by destiny, another time and place, and growing up with a concept of ‘local’, not Federal. He wasn’t a villain, just a soldier. Much like the story of Nathan Bedford Forrest, the truth has been destroyed by propaganda.
Like Rommel in WWII, people just don’t understand that sometimes the currents take good soldiers to places they don’t wan’t to be.
So much for “With malice toward none, with charity for all”. We must remember that the Left exhibits malice toward all and charity for none. They are rabid swine.
It has been argued that since the Confederates took arms against the United States they should not be honored today.
Well, many Indian tribes also took arms against the United States. Shouldn’t we erase all memory of them as well? After all, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Perhaps the DoD could start by renaming the Apache helicopter.
(/s, of course)
Top Grad, loyal to the country that was loyal to him.
Lee was a “loyal son of Virginia”.
In true Constitutional form, he joined the Army of Northern Virginia who then joined the CONFEDERATION of STATES that was opposed the Federal Government overreach, in a constitutionally supoported action.
We were “these United States” before CW and Lincoln wrecking the Constitution. Then the power grab to “The United States”.
Great portrait of a great man.
When the Muslims conquered Egypt, the commander sent a courier back to the Iman, asking if they should consider saving the great libraries.
The answer came back that if anything in the library was consistent with Islam, it wasn’t needed. And if it was inconsistent, it must be destroyed. So they were told to destroy everything.
That’s clearly the age we’re living in. They are destroying words, books, films, history, ideas and of course, people.