Wishing everyone a Happy New Year! It was a wonderful Christmas season and especially enjoyed the events with the camp including the parades, Salvation Army bell ringing and the Social at Buena Vista. It was also a time to enjoy the holidays with our families. Presented an opportunity to catch up on current events and social media and unfortunately the woke cancellation of our Southern history continued. Last year’s revisionist histrionics involving the US Defense Department Naming Commission which sought to erase the names of the revered general officers for which a number of military installations were named for their involvement in the War for Southern Independence as a Confederate officer has bled over to a full assault on the character of all things Confederate including General Robert E. Lee who is widely recognized worldwide as one of the most honorable men and capable military minds ever produced by our country.
Last
August , Camp 16 Commander and AL Division JAG Jay Hinton spoke to our camp about
how worthy Lee was of admiration for his personal and professional qualities in
contrast to the sports and Hollywood celebrities of today. Military leaders, historians and Presidents
of the United States unanimously related their admiration for Lee’s Christian
character and held him up as an example to emulate. President Eisenhower who kept a framed
portrait of Lee in his office said, “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.” 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.”
Lee's
former home is Arlington House and it stands today as a memorial to Lee. The grounds are the Arlington National
cemetery. Despite the service Lee
exhibited to his country before and after the WBTS, these PC woke progressives
seek to remove the Confederate Memorial at Arlington to erase this testimony to
the reconciliation of the North and South following the War. At West Point they are expunging any mention,
any reference to the Confederacy and that includes to General Lee who graduated
with honors from and served as the commandant of the military academy. In doing so they are completely erasing all
reference to the historical period, a complete and utter cancellation. George Orwell wrote, ““The most effective way
to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their
history. Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. Who
controls the past controls the future. Every record has been destroyed or
falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue
and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the
process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.
Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always
right.” The sick agenda-driven
anarchists even removed the statue of Confederate General A.P. Hill and exhumed
his body in Richmond, the last Confederate monument in the once proud historic
city to leave a desolate stark sanitized remnant of Monument Avenue. Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben would be so
proud…if they were still here. We can
only hope the new year brings an end to the ridiculous senseless destruction
and erasure of our history and heritage.
We must continue to fight by vocalizing our objections to our political
representatives and to the public at large and to continue to stand for the
ideals for which our Confederate ancestors fought and honor their heroic
struggle. Or else Washington and
Jefferson are next. Hope the new year
brings each of you much success, health and happiness.
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