Posted on 05/16/2015 1:32:34 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
A prominent attorney admits to taking flags from the graves of soldiers, a move that's sparked both positive reaction and calls for him to be arrested and disbarred. He's also received death threats and hate mail.
The lawyer says his actions are meant to promote unity.
A bag of small Confederate flags sits at Union Springs City Hall. They were removed from graves at an old Confederate cemetery downtown, behind the Red Door Theater, near the intersection of Highway 82 and North Prairie Street.
Myron Penn pulled up the flags with his family on Mother's Day. Penn, a founding partner at Penn & Seaborn Attorneys at Law in Union Springs, who served as state senator for two terms and as chairman of the Bullock County Commission, says he did it for his 4-year-old son.
“The reason why we picked them up is because the image of the flags in our community, a lot of people feel that they're a symbol of divisiveness and oppression of many people in our community,” Penn said. “Especially with the history that that flag and the connotation and negativism that it brings. I would think that no one in our community would have a problem with this or with my actions at all.”
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He tbinks he’s above tge law. Typical
Agree. Disbarred
I remember a newspaper years ago showing a Confederate flag on a grave in Maine. I forget the story but somehow a Confederate Soldier died and was buried in Maine during the war.
The locals would place a small Confederate flag on it every year during some memorial servic. Probably no longer done since PC has taken over the world.
Only the Normandy D-Day invasion surpassed Okinawa in its scope, preparation and forces employed. More than 548,000 Americans participated in the Okinawa invasion. American service members were surprised to find virtually no resistance as they stormed the beaches on Easter 1945. They soon discovered that the Japanese Imperial Army and Navy had literally gone underground having spent a year forcing Okinawan slaves to dig their underground defenses. It required 83 days of combat to defeat the Japanese.
The invasion of Okinawa was by the newly organized American 10th Army. The 10th, commanded by Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, was composed of the XXIV Corps, made up of veteran Army units including the 7th, 27th, 77th, and 96th Infantry divisions, and the III Amphibious Corps, with three battle-hardened Marine divisions, the 1st, 2nd, and 6th.
One of the most significant milestones in the Okinawan campaign was the taking of Shuri Castle, the underground headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Army. After two months of fighting the Japanese, the 6th Marines and the Army’s 7th Division were moving south, nearing Shuri Castle. The 6th Marines were commanded by Maj. Gen. Pedro del Valle. Following a hard fight at Dakeshi Town, del Valle’s Marines engaged in a bloody battle at Wana Draw.
Wana Draw stretched 800 yards and was covered by Japanese guns from its 400-yard entrance to its narrow exit. The exit provided the key to Shuri Castle. The Japanese were holed up in caves the entire length of the gully, and had to be eradicated in man-to-man combat.
While the Marines battled through the mud and blood up the draw, the Army’s 77th Division was approaching Shuri from the east. To the west, the 6th Marines were pushing into the capital city of Naha. Faced with this overwhelming force, Japanese Gen. Ushijima’s army retreated to the south. On May 29, 1945, A Company, Red Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, commanded by Capt. Julius Dusenberg, approached to within 800 yards of Shuri Castle. The castle lay within the zone of the 77th Infantry Division, known as the Statue of Liberty Boys. However, Gen. Ushijima’s rear guard had stalled the 77th’s advance.
Impatient, Maj. Gen. del Valle ordered Capt. Dusenberg to “take that damned place if you can. I’ll make the explanations.”
Dusenberg radioed back, “Will do!”
Dusenberg’s Marines stormed the stone fortress, quickly dispatching a detachment of Japanese soldiers who had remained behind. Once the castle had been taken, Dusenberg took off his helmet and removed a flag he had been carrying for just such a special occasion. He raised the flag at the highest point of the castle and let loose with a rebel yell. The flag waving overhead was not the Stars and Stripes, but the Confederate Stars and Bars. Most of the Marines joined in the yell, but a disapproving New Englander supposedly remarked, “What does he want now? Should we sing ‘Dixie’?”
Maj. Gen. Andrew Bruce, the commanding general of the 77th Division, protested to the 10th Army that the Marines had stolen his prize. But Lt. Gen. Buckner only mildly chided Gen. del Valle, saying, “How can I be sore at him? My father fought under that flag!” Gen. Buckner’s father was the Confederate Gen. Buckner who had surrendered Fort Donelson to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in 1862. The flag flew only two days over Shuri Castle when it was formally raised on May 31, 1945. Dusenberg’s flag was first lowered and presented to Gen. Buckner as a souvenir. Gen. Buckner remarked, “OK! Now, let’s get on with the war!” Tragically, just days before Okinawa fell, Gen. Buckner was killed by an enemy shell on June 18, 1945, on Mezido Ridge while observing a Marine attack.
Blacks cant comprehend white society or the morales. M. Sanger had that right. A people devoid of leadership qualities.
You said ‘one flag’ but then you discussed two. So it was clear that you were confused about something.
This is why Dems are opposed to the flag, because they want those facts to be hidden.
I have no idea why though, even the Blacks cover for their Racist sins.
And why not just dig up the headstones for road pavers in the name of unity.
I’m not confused at all. We have one flag— The Stars And Stripes.
When your brain is working tomorrow, you might look at these pictures of Americans fighting under the Confederate Jack in World War II and in Vietnam. Even a few from Iraq.
Then you can crawl into back into your politically correct hole like a good little prole.
https://hernandoheckler.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/confederate-veterans-we-salute-you/
With your hatred for the south (our most conservative part of the country) it is a wonder that you have lasted at FR. Every time I see a southern-related thread you do your best to piss off the Southern contingent that make up a good portion of FR. Your bigotry against southerners is every bit as virulent as what one would see at DU. The South is still the most openly patriotic part of the country and I say that as someone who lives in Ohio.
I remember going to the home of one of my fathers business associates in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi in the early 60’s. In the backyard he had a huge patio and when we kids went to play on it we discovered that it was paved with grave markers that he had salvaged from a decommissioned cemetery.
You're being as big of a jackass as this liberal lawyer.
Actually, I made my point in my first post.
What seems to get under your skin is that I will not agree with you and I refuse to debate with you. I have debated with folks like you in the past...it’s a complete waste of time.
Yes, I am tattling on you and not one bit ashamed.
Free Republic is a pro-God, pro-life site for Conservative activism and does not tolerate any support for that evil woman, Margaret Sanger, who called for the genocide of an entire race. Your remarks are those of a wicked liberal and not a FReeper! A ZOT is the least you deserve for your satanic anti-life statement,
With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
That is the spirit of unity.
I don't care if you don't understand.
Unfortunately, some on FR do support the MargaretSanger-Malthusian-Guttmacher approach to immigration and population control in non-abortion situations.
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