Prattville Dragoons Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 1524 Commander's Column for November 2023 – Defending God, Family and Country

 I was listening to the radio on my commute the other day and a state representative was talking to the host, stating that her family has a history of supporting the military in service including the Marines but no longer.  The host stated that from a Southern cultural perspective, God and country have been foremost ideals.  But today, the military is woke and the POTUS administration is pushing an LGBQT agenda with promotions of such throughout the chain of command and there appears to be a concerted effort to interject American forces in regional conflicts in theatres from Ukraine to Israel to Taiwan.  Many look at what transpired in Afghanistan and particularly the withdrawal and see no point to the sacrifice of our nation’s young men and our treasury in attaining no clear objectives except the enrichment of the military industrial complex and the DC and Wall Street profiteers. 

For generations, God, country and family have been the foundation of the Southern culture.  But today, God in America has been rejected, prayer removed from our schools and atheism and agnosticism dictating what is permissible in the public square.  Yahweh and Jesus Christ are no longer recognized by our leaders as He who bestows our inalienable rights enumerated in the Constitution.  The pedophile Islamic prophet Mohammed is given equal weight.  Increasingly, our legal system views the Constitution as a living document, easily amendable and progressively interpreted and laws formulated based on secular notions.   Christianity has been replaced with diversity and inclusion of faiths foreign to our founding fathers and our ancestors including those in direct conflict with our “Judeo-Christian” morals and values.  Kwanzaa is recognized as a legitimate holiday on par with Christmas and Hanukkah.  Our Confederate ancestors experienced one of the great revivals in history in battlefield encampments during their perilous fight and upon returning to their impoverished families and devasted homes.  The  country churches these Confederate veterans founded sit largely empty now as young people migrate to mega-churches many embracing progressive values including LGBQT leadership and pastors and teachings.  As we approach Thanksgiving this month of November, it should be remembered that the CSA was founded on Christian principles and President Jefferson Davis even proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving on September 18, 1862, as a day of thanksgiving prayers for the Confederate States. 

Our Confederate ancestors fought for Southern states’ independence but largely from an individual soldiers’ standpoint, in defense of their very homes and families.  Today, American military might is used to project power and protect “American interests” across the globe.  It can be said without debate that modern wars and the US military buildup has been pursued in an effort to secure capitalist markets and open trade routes especially for oil products.  That and to ever increase expenditures to support military contractors supplying the latest weaponry to ensure American technological preeminence on the battlefields, on and under the ocean and, in the skies.   Not since a limited incursion by Japanese forces during World War II in the Alaskan Aleutian islands has American soil been fought on.  Our Confederate ancestors fought to defend their very Dixie homeland, not Afghanistan sand and Kuwaiti oil.  The COVID 19 worldwide vaccination mandates, open borders and migrant influxes in Europe and the United States, confiscatory taxation and socialist redistribution, and the shuttering of viable fossil fuel power plants to embrace wind and solar and electric cars to combat alleged human-induced climate change are examples of the adoption of a one-world order and dictates which take away our nationalism and individual freedoms and liberties as Americans.  Would you enlist or send your sons and daughters to fight the DC elites’ latest manufactured excuse for a war?  Does the DC agenda represent the ideals for which you would lay down your life in defense of a country to which you can hardly identify any longer?