The lefties destroy American history. 
Posted on 06/24/2015 9:56:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Puts S.C.’s Confederate-flag flap in perspective.
It’s tough to top the historical amnesia that has let the Confederate flag fly over the South Carolina capitol for more than half a century. But the U.S. Army certainly can give Columbia’s banner a run for its money: it operates posts named for nine Confederate generals and a colonel, including the head of its army, the reputed Georgia chief of the Ku Klux Klan and the commander whose troops fired the first shots of the Civil War.
It shouldn’t be surprising. Both the Army and the South are tradition-bound entities that revere their past. Each of the posts was named for a Confederate officer long after the Civil War, including many in the first half of the 20th Century when the U.S. military was rushing to open training posts for both world wars. Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said Wednesday there is “no discussion” underway about renaming the posts.
The Army itself stood firm. “Every Army installation is named for a soldier who holds a place in our military history,” Brigadier General Malcolm Frost, the service’s top spokesman, said Wednesday. “Accordingly, these historic names represent individuals, not causes or ideologies. It should be noted that the naming occurred in the spirit of reconciliation, not division.”(continued)
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It might end when the GOP stops surrendering, it would at least slow down.
The media is blanketing the4 news with this cr*p - wake up, folks.
Look through the smoke screen and watch what the other hand is doing - for one, keeping the continuing revelations of the Clinton’s malfeasance out of the headlines.
GEEEZE, even Freepers swallow the Kool Ade...
By posting this I “swallowed the Kool-Aid?”
The lefties destroy American history.
No changing the names of bases to kotow to people who despise and disrespect veterans and support those who want to kill both them and us. Its way past time to man up and tell the leftists to shut the hell up.
This is a target list
When I see what our republic has become, perhaps it would have been better if the South would’ve won.
When will it end? Answer may be very ugly.
We should’ve picked our own, damned cotton.
When we put the bastards on trial, then hang them.
A fair sized number of ex-confederates served in the U.S. military.
Why the U.S. government would name installations after men who took up arms against it is beyond me. Their careers should have ended at the end of a rope.
If the U.S. military had taken your view of how to end the civil war then it would have ended in a very bloody guerrilla war. There was no reason to hang honorable men like Robert E. Lee.
There is no honor in treason.
Other nations have civil wars that become centuries long grudge matches.
Not ours though.
Why?
Lincoln set the stage - Lee was treated with respect at the surrender signing, and southerners were not designated as second class citizens and marched of to re-education camps like in commie Vietnam. It was conciliatory....and a brilliant way to handle the situation. Just a thought.
What’s your point up in Maine?
I haven’t seen your moniker in years
http://wgno.com/2015/06/24/new-orleans-mayor-takes-stand-against-controversial-confederate-statues/
I understand from a NOL native, that the Lee statue faces north. As a swamp Yankee, I find that delightful.
A fair number
Care to wager what percentage on usual combat bound troops are southern and white through all wars post Civil War even till today
In proportion to population no one else comes close
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