Apparently, committing multiple robberies
and assaults and being a drug addict are cause célèbre to dishonor and diminish
the life and legacy of one of America’s greatest men in history, Robert E.
Lee. The federal Naming Commission established
in the wake of the George Floyd death and which was funded by your tax dollars
to investigate the naming of military installations after Confederate Generals turned
their collective PC historical revisionism to the portraits of Robert E. Lee at
West Point. https://www.newsmax.com/us/confederate-statues-west-point-george-floyd-robert-e-lee/2022/06/03/id/1072904/. Many Confederates also served the United
States with distinction including President Jefferson Davis, General Fitzhugh
Lee, General Joseph Wheeler, General P.G.T. Beauregard and “151 (others) West
Point produced (who) fought for the Confederacy. In 2015 Time Magazine quoted a Defense
Department spokesperson that “these historic names represent individuals, not causes
or ideologies. It should be noted that the naming occurred in the spirit of
reconciliation, not division.” (But
today division is espoused by the POTUS and racism is institutionalized in affirmative
action initiatives so) this raises the question whether anything named after
Robert E. Lee is automatically and exclusively considered a Confederate or
racist symbol? If so, removal or renaming seems appropriate. But if the answer
is that objects may be appropriately named after Confederate leaders in some
circumstances, then removal or renaming, seems both reactionary and empowering
to hate groups.” https://www.justsecurity.org/44479/tangled-history-confederate-generals-west-point-army-robert-e-lee/
The spirit of reconciliation and honoring
the sacrifices, bravery, genius, and leadership of the Confederate soldiers has
been replaced by a collective PC historical revisionism to
wash America’s history and replace it with comparatively insignificant
irrelevant substitutions to represent America’s fighting forces such as mail
person Charity Adams and stay-at-home-mom Julia Moore.
Fort Gordon is proposed
to be renamed after General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander during
World War II and 34th President of the United States. This seems
untenable as he has espoused Lee, in defense of hanging a portrait of him in
the Oval Office saying, “General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of
the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation…. he was thoughtful yet
demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but
ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never
disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained
selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether,
he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our
history. From deep conviction, I simply
say this: a nation of men of Lee’s calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and
soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to
emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in
his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation’s wounds once the bitter
struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be
strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.” Eisenhower was not alone in his astute
perceptions of Lee. French General Ferdinand
Foch, Supreme Allied Commander WWI, stated, "If Gen. Robert E. Lee was a
traitor, Napoleon Bonaparte was a coward. If General Lee was a traitor, I wish
France had more of them. he was one of the greatest military leaders the world
has ever known." Theodore Roosevelt,
26th President of the United States and Colonel in the US Army of
Rough Riders fame, said, “General Lee has left us the memory, not merely of his
extraordinary skill as a general, his dauntless courage and high leadership in
campaign and battle, but also of that serene greatness of soul.” https://the-american-catholic.com/2017/08/23/theodore-roosevelt-on-robert-e-lee/
To ignore the universal
praise over the past century and a half of one of America’s greatest leaders in
a blind effort to diminish Lee’s legacy and the Cause for which he fought and
led his men to battle should enrage all Southern compatriots and veterans who
have served in our Armed Forces. The SCV
Charge employs us, “To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the
vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given
the defense of the Confederate soldier’s good name, the guardianship of his
history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles
which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him
glorious and which you also cherish.” Nothing truer than to reflect on Lee as
the personification of these attributes but as the SCV National website reminds
us too, “The citizen-soldiers who fought for the Confederacy personified the
best qualities of America. The preservation of liberty and freedom was the
motivating factor in the South’s decision to fight the Second American
Revolution. The tenacity with which Confederate soldiers fought underscored
their belief in the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. These attributes are
the underpinning of our democratic society and represent the foundation on
which this nation was built.” Our nation
is quickly losing sight of these honorable attributes and our nation will be
the lesser for it.
