VMI will not remove Confederate statues or rename buildings

WSLS ^ | 7/29/2020 | Jeff Williamson

[sevinufnine]

Rather than remove its past, VMI plans to focus on its future. The military college’s superintendent, Ret. Gen. J.H. Bindford Peay III, announced the decision to neither remove Confederate statues nor rename any buildings as part of a seven-page letter. On campus are statues of Stonewall Jackson and Francis H. Smith, who both served in the Confederate army. There is also the New Market Monument, which honors the VMI cadets who fought at the Battle of New Market for the Confederacy.

Peay said that VMI, which has been around for nearly 200 years, will emphasize the Institute’s second century.

[sevinufnine]

We do not currently intend to remove any VMI statues or rename any VMI buildings. Rather, in the future we will emphasize recognition of leaders from the Institute’s second century.We will place unvarnished context on the value and lessons to be learned from the Institute’s rich heritage, while being mindful of the nation’s challenges and sensitivities to being fair and inclusive to all. Nevertheless, this and other issues related to the Plan will be discussed in the September Board of Visitors meeting. Ret. Gen. J.H. Bindford Peay III, VMI Superintendent

[HighSierra5]

If I’m not mistaken,most if not all senior officers United States officers before the war. You can’t take that away.

[sevinufnine]

OH, the left sure thinks they can take it away. Out of sight, out of mind, and then the snowflakes believe it never existed in the first place. History then can repeat itself in reverse order.

[PGalt]

Why are the Georgia Guidestones still standing?

[HighSierra5]

I’m going to have to go on faith from here on out. Real Americans will prevail. A country as righteous as the promise we make everyday to fulfill our principles cannot fail. Like Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address.. America will not disappear. As long as we fight with God on our side.

[gartrell bibberts]

Thank God! Some are now starting to push back!

It is a form of dementia.to think that you can change the past by pretending that it didn’t happen.

God bless VMI.

[sevinufnine]

Well, 1/2 of America doesn’t believe that today. Let’s hope 50+ % do or, America is done Nov 6th.

[Perseverando]

From about 20 years ago:

“Women at VMI? What next, men at UVA?”

[sevinufnine]

“It is a form of dementia.to think that you can change the past by pretending that it didn’t happen.”

It’s also a tool of socialist/communists to gain control of the masses. The under-educated, angry, foolish, liberal masses....

[livius]

I’m glad there’s signs of resistance to this insanity.

One of the unexpected results of this is that a lot of people are actually getting interested in our Civil War era history, including me. I had the standard background in it that was provided by a decent public school education in the 50s and 60s, when books like Carl Sandburg’s biography of Lincoln, Mackinlay Kantor’s Andersonville (not to mention his Lee and Grant at Appomattox, If the South Had Won the Civil War, etc.), Bruce Catton’s books, etc. were best sellers.

Time to go back and re-read these books and tour a few battlefields...

[Gay State Conservative]

Nationwide boycott in 3...2...1...

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

George Patton went there.

[Fighting Falcon]

Thank you for posting this. My son matriculates there in 2 weeks. Very reassuring to hear!

[okie 54]

GREAT Finally someone showing some back bone

[poconopundit]

I just got through Bill O'Reilly's audio series on the Civil War. It's a wonderful work to listen to because it explains the personalities of the people behind the war. A great portrait of VMI professor Stonewall Jackson was given in the text. And I just found an interesting discussion on Jackson at the VMI website. The people who get it right recognize the valiantry of soldiers and leaders on both sides of the War. Their virtues are the cornerstone of our great Republic. Yet just outside the VMI campus in Lexington, VA is a symbol of the scorn and hatred that many Americans have for our history — a restaurant called the Little Red Hen.

[kalee]

For latet

[stonehouse01]

Washington and Lee (also in Lexington, VA) had better do the same.

[sevinufnine]

You are welcome :) As a Virginian it pleases me to see it too.

[Arlis]

Praise the Lord! Peay is a man of God and a man with a spine.

At least something in our commonwealth isn’t caving to Marxism......

[Sans-Culotte]

Bruce Catton’s books, etc. were best sellers.

I read Catton's Army of the Potomac trilogy a couple of years ago. For some reason, I had avoided them, thinking Catton was more of a grade-school writer. They turned out to be some of the best books I have read on the war. At times Catton's prose verged on poetry.