Vandals Deface Statue Of General Lee. No, Not That General Lee.

Hotair ^ | 02/22/2019 | Allahpundit

[SeekAndFind]

The motive here is still unknown but the curator of the William C. Lee Airborne Museum has a compelling theory. Given that Confederate memorials have been defaced or torn down recently in the greater Raleigh-Durham area, where the museum is located, and in light of the fact that most Americans are abject ignoramuses about their country’s basic history, it seems likely that someone thought this General Lee was that General Lee and decided to torch a statue of him to protest racism.

And so, between this and the Jussie Smollett saga, we have a recurring theme on the homepage today: Woke and stupid are a woeful combination.

When you take a look at the statue of Gen. William C. Lee and compare it to a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, it’s obvious the two are completely dissimilar and look completely different.

“Complete different generation, complete different war, complete different everything,” Mr. Johnson said. “Everything is different.”

Mr. Johnson said the last name alone — the only thing the two men share — has spurred questions in the past about kinship between the two, something which does not exist.

“People have asked if they’re kin and we tell them they’re not kin that we know of,” Mr. Johnson said. “There’s been no other concerns about the Confederate general versus the World War II general that we know of at all.”

I don’t know, maybe it’s not a case of mistaken identity. Raleigh-Durham is a college region; there must be no shortage of locals who hate the troops.

I kid. Well, no, not really.

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[Army Air Corps]

Where was AOC at the time?

[FlipWilson]

Party On social justice warriors!!’

[rockrr]

Leftists - is there anything they won't disrespect?

[Slyfox]

You would think that when the educators were educating their little socialists they might think to put a little real history into the mix.

[Tax-chick]

Why would you think that? What would the educators gain?

[Slyfox]

Well, I am just pointing out how bad these educators are.

They have so absconded with their real job to educate that they can't give the kids even a semblance of a real education.

And I am speaking as an historian.

[hanamizu]

Look, he’s a white American officer in the 40s. Of course he’s racist. His statue must go!!

[Tax-chick]

I am just pointing out how bad these educators are.

I know. I was just being extra literal-minded.

My bigger point is serious, though. At this point, why would any of us assume that teachers have an interest in students' being genuinely educated? Many individuals do, of course, but as a generalization, I think the initial assumption ought to go the other way.

[tired&retired]

From the Museum website:

Major General William C. Lee, Dunn, North Carolina’s famous airborne hero, was a North Carolina State University ROTC graduate who stayed in the Army after World War I, and was assigned as a peace-time observer in Germany. In this position Lee took note of Hitler’s development of his airborne troops.

Lee returned to Washington as a Major in the Office of the Chief of Infantry. He was still infatuated by what he had seen the German Army doing with its airborne forces.

Major Lee talked about it constantly. Finally the infantry Colonel who shared the office got tired of hearing about it. He told Lee angrily, “Major, I am sick and tired of hearing your nonsense about airborne warfare. No American soldier is ever going to have little enough sense to jump out of an airplane even in a parachute, and I don’t want to hear the word airborne spoken in this office again. This is a direct order.” The only thing Major Lee could say was, “Yes, sir.”

A few weeks later, Major Lee, as the junior officer in the office, answered the telephone. “What are you folks doing toward developing airborne warfare?’ the caller wanted to know. Under direct orders not to even use the word, Major Lee replied, “Just a minute and I will let you speak to my superior,” and he handed the phone to the Colonel. “Who the h___ wants to know?” asked the Colonel. “The President of the United States wants to know and I am calling on his behalf” was the reply. The Colonel handed the phone back to Lee and ordered, “Tell this man anything he wants to know.”

The gentleman on the phone was President Franklin Roosevelt’s military aide. He told Lee the President had been reading about Hitler’s airborne activities and wanted to know more about it. Major Lee was invited to the White House to brief President Roosevelt on what he had seen in Germany. The President was so impressed that he ordered airborne planning and training to begin immediately.

The first airborne command was organized with Major Lee as the commander. The Dunn man became the “Father of the American Airborne.”

Lee had seen a parachute drop at the World’s Fair in New York that lifted customers by pulley and dropped them to the ground by parachute. He ordered two of the lift towers erected at the parachute school at Fort Benning, Georgia, where they are still being used. This was the beginning of America’s airborne forces, which were credited a short time later in shortening World War II by years and saving countless lives.

General Lee developed the plans for the air invasion of Normandy on D-Day and had trained to jump with his men, but was sent back to the states a few months before the battle due to a heart attack. To honor their “father”, the paratroopers yelled out “Bill Lee!” as they made their jump on D-Day. He listened to the invasion by radio in his Dunn home on Divine Street, the current site of the General William C. Lee Airborne Museum

[BipolarBob]

Just leave the 69 Dodge Charger alone.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I sincerely believe that there is no coming back from the abyss into which America has fallen.

God shed his grace on a country that once deserved it. That country no longer deserves it.

[Who is John Galt?]

At least it wasn’t “Light-Horse Harry”...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Put a boot in their ass.
It’s the American way.

[Boogieman]

We should whisper to the perpetually aggrieved that there are a lot of “General Lee” statues in China for them to go rectify.

Now, we don’t have to mention that they are statues of General Lee Ching, or General Lee Dong :D

[Jemian]

NO ONE deserves God’s grace. But you are correct if you’re saying that we, as a country, have turned our backs on God. I tremble.

[John S Mosby]

So FREAKING stupid— it is beyond words. Try that at Fort Bragg, MORONs!! Cannot even get the HISTORY correct for your small time “protest”. A@@ kicking to proceed.

Legendary General, another one named Lee. Trashed for NO reason at all except their own stupidity.

[John S Mosby]

So FREAKING stupid— it is beyond words. Try that at Fort Bragg, MORONs!! Cannot even get the HISTORY correct for your small time “protest”. A@@ kicking to proceed.

Legendary General, another one named Lee. Trashed for NO reason at all except their own stupidity.

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

Cool story! 🌠

[John S Mosby]

See that this was in Dunn, NC— outside of Bragg below Benson, NC.

This is more of the chapel hill marxists who are... complete revolutionary communist party (revcom.org if you want to see)members from there.... going around and trashing gravestones and monuments. Including Silent Sam.

This crap has to STOP. NOW! Find these little shiites.