How Do Black Veterans Feel About Renaming Bases? Louisiana, Confederate Holidays, Virginia

JUNE 4, 2022

**  Veterans of color on  proposed ditching of  Confederate names at 9 bases.

**  Vote means 2 Confederate holidays are fading away in Louisiana.

**  'That's an outright lie.'  Discussion gets heated regarding  Confederate  statue removal.  (Owensboro, Kentucky.   It has already been removed.)

**  Virginia county moves, rededicates Confederate monuments.  (Abingdom, Virginia)

**  Busts removed from Caddo Confederate monument in preparation for move.  (Louisiana)

--Old Secesh

Taking a Day Off to Salute All of Our American Military on Veterans Day 2020

They are the reason why we have the liberties and freedoms as well as the opportunities to succeed.  There are those who would rather we not have them.  These are the thing desert fatigues line that protects us.

And, that includes the American veterans who wore the gray during the Civil War.

Every one of my blogs today is saluting all American veterans.

In keeping with this, a World War II veteran and a Rosie the Riveter were honored in Centerville, Ohio, today.

**   1st Lt. Walter Pettit, 97, was a member of the Army Air Corps  and saw action in the skies over France and Germany, flying a P-47 Thunderbolt.

**  Ruth Snively, 95,  worked at the Seeburg Factory in Chicago as one of the war's "Rosie the Riveters."  Seeburg was known for their jukeboxes, but during the war made sonar sets for the Navy.

I have my U.S. flags out flying proud.  Hope you have yours as well.

Thank You veterans and, of course, the Greatest Generation.  

Civil War II: North Carolina, Confederates Are U.S. Veterans, New York and Virginia

AUGUST 27, 2020

**  Letter:  I began to see the statue in Lexington in a different way.  (North Carolina)

**  Drone 10:  Crews begin removing Portsmouth's Confederate monument. Virginia.  View from a drone.)

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AUGUST 30, 2020

Letters to the Editor:  Confederates are U.S. veterans.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

**  Brookhaven fire officials apologize for Confederate flag on fire truck.  (New York.  Flag onside of the truck.  Blacks offended.)

**  Call for Confederate monument in Nelson to come down.  (Lovingston, Va.  Nelson County.  A black minister wants it gone.  very surprising.)

--Old Secesh

President McKinley's Speech on Decoration Day 1900-- Part 1: Back When Confederates Were Considered Honorable

From the May 18, 2020, Tribune-Chronicle  "President McKinley gives the Antietam Address in 1900" by Mike Wilson.

President William McKinley was a resident of Niles, Ohio.  The Spanish-American War of 1898 had recently ended and many of the troops were back home with their families.  This was the first time that Northerners and Southerners had formed one military since the Civil War.

During the war, McKinley had appointed two supreme commanders of American forces, one was a former Union officer and the other a former Confederate officer.

With Decoration Day (now Memorial Day) fast approaching, McKinley wanted to bring the nation together even more to honor all of our military.  During past decoration Days, families of Union veterans and families of Confederate veterans had  decorated the graves of their fallen separately.

McKinley changed that in 1900 as he traveled to the Antietam Battlefield to give a speech.

There were two significant things about this particular battle:  one was that McKinley had fought there as a Union sergeant and been awarded for heroism, and, second, Maryland had recently  completed a large memorial at the site honoring the state veterans of both sides during the conflict.

--Old Secesh

Are Confederate Veterans Considered to be United States Veterans?

Not according to the anti-Confederate folks  who regard them as being the same as the Nazi guards at the German concentration camps during World War II.  Few in world history have been worse.  They deserved nothing but shame and their memory eliminated because of the stain of slavery.

But, how come Confederates are buried in National Cemeteries?  How come they are issued gravestones by the U.S. government?  Why is it that the widows and children are eligible for federal pensions?

Perhaps, somehow, someway, they are U.S. veterans.  As such, disrespect to any of them is tantamount to disrespect for all U.S. veterans.

Something the Confederate haters should think about before they commit hate crimes (i.e. "vandalize") Confederate statues and memorials.  I guess we should condemn them to be a part of those who showed such disrespect for our veterans returning from the Vietnam War.

--Old Secesh