Posted on 05/25/2020 8:32:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“The New York Times Is on a Snipe Hunt to Associate U.S. Military with White Supremacy”
For the July 4 edition, the New York Times will feature a story noting each of the Tuskegee Airmen took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States which during WWII meant racist policies and military segregation.
The headline: Tuskegee Airmen Fought for White Supremacy.
Take it up with him and his party.
Apparently nobody at the Times or Townhall realizes that these Forts were not opened and named “soon after the war” as a token of reconciliation. Every one of them was opened and named either during World War 1 or World War 2.
It is a tradition to name military forts after some significant American military figure from the region or state the post is located in or a local battlefield (e.g. Fort Monmouth). Almost every Confederate named base is dedicated to the service of those soldiers in the Mexican American War where they served In the US Army. None of them were ever charged with treason so calling them traitors is just plain wrong.
Apparently nobody at the Times or Townhall realizes that these Forts were not opened and named “soon after the war” as a token of reconciliation. Every one of them was opened and named either during World War 1 or World War 2.
It is a tradition to name military forts after some significant American military figure from the region or state the post is located in or a local battlefield (e.g. Fort Monmouth). Almost every Confederate named base is dedicated to the service of those soldiers in the Mexican American War where they served In the US Army. None of them were ever charged with treason so calling them traitors is just plain wrong.
It was more of a mixed bag. Some people didn't forgive and forget. Some Southerners who were willing to keep quiet about the North still held grudges against Southerners didn't support their cause.
There were various reunions at battlefields, including Gettysburg, where veterans from both sides met and shoot hand and had giant picnics.
Not very often. Most reunions and commemorations were of one side or the other. The big Gettysburg reunions were organized by the state and federal governments to be symbols of national unity and happened when most veterans were already quite old.
“Personally, I do not lend any credence at all to those who opine on the military, who could never be bothered to serve in the military. “
HEAR, HEAR!!!
By this point, a lot of them do. The paper does stories about that every year or so.
Didn’t the NY Slimes recently hire a racist Asian lady? (can’t remember her name).
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Charging Americans for being racist based on the color of their skin is in itself racist.
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