Our Confederate forefathers exhibited an uncommon bravery
and valor as well as endurance defending their homes and families in the face
of overwhelming odds. The lengthy defenses
of Vicksburg and Petersburg/Richmond are evidence of the determination with
which they fought. The emaciated
soldiers who surrender with Lee at Appomattox and the near starvation and deprivations
the Confederate soldiers endured illustrate the lengths they were willing to go
in their fight for independence.
Today we are faced with a relentless enemy greatly
outnumbering ourselves. The Marxist progressives
have attacked our Confederate monuments and heritage as a broader offensive
against our nation’s founding principles and the liberties and Judeo-Christian moral
imperatives on which our nation was created and with which we seek to nurture
our families. As has been stated elsewhere, the Confederate
monuments were low hanging fruit which they could label as offensive and racist
and so communities and universities across the nation allowed the vandalism,
destruction and removal of these from the public square. I read a letter to the editor in the most
recent edition of the Confederate Veteran magazine and he stated that he felt
these attacks were behind us. But while
the onslaught may have slowed, the vandalism and attacks continue. The Lion of the Confederacy monument in
Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta is a recent target where biased distorted markers
are planned to contextualize the sacrifice of the Georgia citizens who resisted
Sherman’s campaign of terror (except the markers won’t state as much). Silent Sam was removed recently from the UNC
campus and a federal judge revoked the transfer of the monument to the
SCV.
The top U.S. Marine commander announced that all Confederate
symbols would be removed from installations worldwide equating and grouping the
Confederate Battle flag and references to the great heroes and military leaders
of the War of Northern Aggression to white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan. He also stated that his desire was to bring a
higher level of education to the Marine Corps in the quality of the individuals
enlisted. He may want to educate himself
first and break free of the bondage of his own ignorance regarding the truth of
the Cause. But these revisionists have
the soapbox of the main stream media and I noted that for a full week after his
announcement, there was a related story released by one fake news outlet after
another breaking the story, all in a concerted attempt to keep this on the front
page of my news feed. But, as we knew, Confederate
heritage, monuments, and symbols were just the beginning. Vandals recently defaced Plymouth rock and
the Pilgrim Maiden statue in Massachusetts and the Yankees cried, “Why? Why?
Why would someone do this?” She answered
her own question partly when she noted that the crime coincided with the 400th
anniversary of the landing of the white supremacists who enslaved the native
Indians and desecrated their lands. (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/17/plymouth-rock-vandalized-graffiti-pilgrim-maiden-statue-damaged/4786255002/)
We have no choice but to continue our fight and struggle
against these forces aligned against us.
We must exhibit the same fortitude with which our Confederate ancestors
withstood the might of the Union Army possessing superior resources and numbers
but lacking the same conviction of truth and the same virtues and principles that
Lee’s men possessed and which we also ought love and cherish enough to
sacrifice similarly. As we come ‘round
to another year in the SCV, redouble your dedication to this great organization
standing for Southern heritage and to your Confederate compatriot brothers in
whom the blood passed down from heroes flows as in yourself.
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