Civil War II: CAIR Again, Those Pesky Confederate Uniforms

OCTOBER 15, 2022

**  CAIR supports Va. school board's review of  Confederate, segregationist-linked names.  (I wonder if CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) also supports international terrorism since so many terrorists are Islamic?)

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OCTOBER 16, 2022

**  JROTC  cadet wore a Confederate uniform to Armed Forces Night at Erwin High School.  (Asheville, NC.  Oh, the horror,  Oh the horror.)

**  Ellisville  Deason home rumored to harbor a Confederate ghost.  (Mississippi.  Just in time for Halloween.  Probably a racist ghost, you know.)

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

**  Student who wore a Confederate uniform to Erwin game  sparks concern.  (Asheville, NC.  Students dressed in uniform from several wars.  No matter how you look at it, Confederate soldiers are U.S. veterans.)

Some Folks Just Go Overboard.  --Old Secesh

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 at Antietam Battlefield in 1900-- Part 2: "With Affection and Respect For Each Other"

President McKinley composed a 358-word speech to deliver on Decoration Day 1900.  He fashioned it after Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which was short, but yet poignant to the events of the Battle of Antietam which he was honoring.

I feel it is important in these current days of division about the Civil War, that these thoughts be taken into consideration.  Among the invited guests were General and Mrs. Longstreet of the Confederacy.

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THE SPEECH

"In this presence and on this memorable field I am glad to meet the followers of Lee and Jackson and Longstreet with the followers of Grant and McClellan and Sherman and Sheridan, greeting each other, not with arms in their hands or malice in their souls, but with affection and respect for each other in their hearts.

"Standing here today, one reflection only has crowded my mind, the difference between this scene and that of 38 years ago.  Then the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray greeted each other with shot and shell, and visited death upon their respective ranks.

"We meet after these intervening years, as friends, with a common sentiment that of loyalty to the government of the United States, love for our flag and our free institutions, and determined men of the North and men of the South, to make any sacrifice for the honor and perpetuity of the American Nation."

Too Bad This Can't Be the Sentiment of Today As I Watch What Charlottesville Is Preparing To Do.    --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

No New Attacks on Confederacy for March 15 or March 16, 2020

March 15, 2020

Just one letter to the editor about letting Confederate veterans rest, but don't celebrate them as heroes.

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March 16, 2020

No new attacks.

I can live with that.

Sad that it took this pandemic to stop those guys.

Perhaps a Moratorium At Least.  --Old Secesh

Heritage Attacks Continue: Now Charlottesville Will Remove the Lewis, Clark, Sacagawea Statue

November 16, 2019

**  Did two congressional acts give Confederate veterans federal benefits?

**  Photo shows another NJ high school student in blackface with Confederate flag.

**  Fayetteville (NC) residents flood public forum on proposed Civil War museum.

**  Nikki Haley urges Liberty University students  to 'push through fear.'

**  Plan to remove Lewis, Clark Sacagawea statue in Charlottesville approved.   (What next?)

**  GOP won't disavow Trump, but Nikki Haley has another strategy.

Well, If Charlottesville Can't Get Rid Of Lee....  --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