Southern Discomfort: U.S. Army Seeks Removal Of Lee, ‘Stonewall’ Jackson Honors -- Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times
Revisionist history would remove portraits of Confederate legends
The U.S. Army War College, which molds future field generals, has begun discussing whether it should remove its portraits of Confederate generals — including those of Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
Nestled in rural Pennsylvania on the 500-acre Carlisle Barracks, the war college is conducting an inventory of all its paintings and photographs with an eye for rehanging them in historical themes to tell a particular Army story.
During the inventory, an unidentified official — not the commandant, Maj. Gen. Anthony A. Cucolo III — asked the administration why the college honors two generals who fought against the United States, college spokeswoman Carol Kerr said.
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Update: U.S. Army considering removing portraits of Confederate Generals Lee and 'Stonewall' Jackson from school for army generals -- Daily Mail
My Comment: The war is over .... why revisit a conflict that ended 150 years ago.
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"The war is over .... why revisit a conflict that ended 150 years ago."
That's a bit like saying why bother teach history because it was so long ago?...
Unless I'm misunderstanding your statement.
What I am trying to say is that it appears that to some Americans the political battles of the Civil War still exist today and these Generals are a symbol of that legacy. They are not .... they are Generals who fought for the other side and their battlefield concepts should not be forgotten.
Really! Tell that to the Jews who keep harping on the Holocaust and Nazis and see how far the argumentation: "why revisit a conflict that ended so long ago" will go without you getting bankrupt and your entire lot in your address book practically assassinated.
What is good for the Jews is good for the Southern Crackers, KKK and the Plantation Blacks.
Oddly enough, 'your' Russians don't seem to give a damn about 50 million dead in WWI & WWII.
I lost a lot of temples and have much more to harp than Solomon himself.
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