Posted on 11/16/2022 11:02:03 AM PST by robowombat
Better dig up the rebs buried there and move them as well. Right?
This committee is bunch of ghouls…….dear mercy will it never end
Deep letter and true words.
Some of my university colleagues deemed themselves ‘Southern Historians’ and when all these Southern Confederate statues and named bases started to get removed, they silently sat by and said NOTHING.
What an embarrassment and further proof that politics being played in the history recorded of our nation’s past is just downright malicious and disgusting. Historical revisionism based upon Woke or whatever ideology/politics is bad bad voodoo and this nation will one day come to realize this.
There is discussion about disinterring all Confederates buried in National Cemetaries. What is interesting is that beyond a very dedicated core of people atr the SCV there is virtually no pushback on the monuments project in places like Virginia. The woke communists see this as a indication that anything the federal government wants to do can be done. Civilian disarmament is on the list. No leftist really believes that there will be much resistance even for ‘civil internment’ of racists and resisters. What do you Freepers say, really? Most so called conservatives appear to me to be weak and cowardly and absolutely determined to risk nothing.
The great historian Shelby Foote is rolling over in his grave.
We don’t have historians anymore but propagandists.
(Spits)
You can think the ‘Lost Cause’ is B.S. and loath its apologists, and still respect the men who died for what they believed in.
Most of the men buried there never owned slaves, they were brutally manipulated by those who did, they deserve their honor and their rest.
It is better to offend the Left, to be hated by them and called every name in the book, than to be tolerated by them.
Whatever they say that offends them: do more of it.
If they want a statue down put another up. If they want the name of something changed take back the name of something already changed. When they tell you they are offended laugh to their faces.
The overall theme at the time of building monuments to both Union forces and Confederate forces was an olive branch from Republicans (Union) to Democrats (recent Confederates) saying: "Hey, the Civil War is over. Both sides have much to mourn about. Let's heal together." It was basically an extension of the attitude Lincoln himself used when he picked a Democrat for his running mate in the 1864 campaign.
We could use some of that "heal together" attitude today. But the Dims want to pin their Confederate sins onto Republicans by rope-a-doping the Republicans into defending the Confederate monument.
Not quite. The land was given by Arlington Cemetery upon a specific legislative direction from Congress. The monument was paid for by individual donation to the United Daughters of the Confederacy (no cost to the US government) and the sculpting of the frieze was done gratis by Sir Moses Ezekiel. The UDC procured the Carrera marble for the frieze. The monument was dedicated by President Woodrow Wilson in June 1914.
Bloody shirt wavers such as you make me want to vomit. My family was from Virginia and both slave owning and non slave owning knew that they wanted to have no part of yankeeland and fought with determined ferocity to eject the blue invading looting, burning, plundering hosts from the soil of their state. My profound regret is that the CSA was conquered by Wall Street and that there are not four or five countries where the USA now is. It is unlikely that such an arrangement
would not have spent the 20th century engaging in what the US Army likes to call ‘Power Projection’. Our lives would be much freer and happier if we were not under the centralizing control of the Beltway Zone and Wall Street.
I’ve read that the period of the 1890’s to the 1930’s was the time of what was called ‘The Reconciliation Movement’.
The idea that the Civil War was behind us was also amplified during WW1 when Southerners and Northerners fought alongside each other on the battlefields of Europe.
After WW1 the feelings of most Americans were that the Civil War was behind us and it was time to come together.
Of course the liberals hate that kind of thing so they have to get in there to divide people.
I’m thinking the next civil war won’t end on such amicable terms as the first one did.
If you care about preserving history, conveying the story of the brave Southern warriors, protecting Southern culture, join or contribute to Sons of Confederate Veterans.
To have a war one must have combatants. So far all I see are people sputtering ineffectually about the Beltway Zone doing whatever they want. FR is a great example. What the hell has happened with all the local chapters that were very active about 15 years ago. There is no push back and the Beltway believes it can do anything it wants, that includes developing a civil confinement regime where people can be incarcerated not for anything they do but just for what they believe and civilian disarmament. The Beltway sniggers at all the gun sales believing that gun owners will never resist confiscation and eventual incarceration. And what have they seen to make them not believe this is so?
Completely nuts!
Gener’l Lee’s property
Leave um
Stolen and appropriated, without compensation,
by the Yankees
There is no more anti-Confederate than me. But on this, no. These men have longed since passed from this life and have stood before their God and have been judged.
Leave it alone.
Beautiful letter, viscous and evil committee.
Suck it up- you lost, and deservedly so. Treason sucks when you lose, you and your ilk should be thankful for the mercy that was shown. The ‘Lost Cause’ was the biggest bunch of bullshit ever taught as history, and anyone believing it a fool and an ignorant one.
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