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Southern Discomfort: U.S. Army seeks removal of Lee, ‘Stonewall’ Jackson honors
The Washington Times ^ | December 17, 2013 | Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 12/17/2013 11:24:11 AM PST by jazusamo

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To: driftdiver

all these bombers and would be bombers fought against the US....all of bams boy toy revolutionaries who are now all high and mighty...


61 posted on 12/17/2013 1:24:12 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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To: jazusamo

Wow. I’m surprised they haven’t removed all of the Confederates from the National Statuary Collection.

Hmm, upon further investigation they have already started. Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry was tossed in 2009 in favor of Helen Keller.

That leaves only 8 Confederates still in the Capital Building.


62 posted on 12/17/2013 1:25:09 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: jazusamo
"The U.S. Army War College, which molds future field generals"

Now they're molding future general turd-burglers in the field.

63 posted on 12/17/2013 1:26:47 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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bump


64 posted on 12/17/2013 1:27:25 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Mike Darancette

Why not? They are quickly renaming schools, parks, etc.; all across the South that were named for Confederate Generals.


65 posted on 12/17/2013 1:31:15 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: no-to-illegals

The quote was “He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right.” The next day, Jackson died.


66 posted on 12/17/2013 1:36:08 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: jazusamo

As a proud Northerner and student of the First Minnesota Volunteer Regiment, let me just say that I think this idea is ridiculous.

Lee and Jackson both graduated from West Point, both served in the Mexican War and both, more importantly, were Americans in addition to being great soldiers.

Even Nathan Bedford Forrest offered his services to William T. Sherman in 1873 due to a threatened war with Spain. Leave the pictures up. Their role in American military history, and the world’s, cannot be denied.


67 posted on 12/17/2013 1:38:51 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: Tallguy

It was not General Cucolo, it was an “unnamed official” who complained.


68 posted on 12/17/2013 1:43:22 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Thank You! Was true and you have my appreciation.


69 posted on 12/17/2013 1:44:42 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: no-to-illegals

My pleasure. :)


70 posted on 12/17/2013 1:45:07 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

My bad. Wonder how an employee or an “official” at the Army War College can possibly give off-the-record comments?

At least the reporter was smart enough to carefully exclude the commandant.


71 posted on 12/17/2013 1:51:32 PM PST by Tallguy (between taglines...)
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To: x

Benedict Arnold was a hero who saved the day at Saratoga

But money problems and an extravagant British leaning wife proved his undoing


72 posted on 12/17/2013 2:28:45 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: SampleMan

war of northern aggression????

if i remember my history correctly, the rebels fired the first shot...

with that in mind, who was the aggressor????


73 posted on 12/17/2013 2:34:50 PM PST by joe fonebone (a socialist is just a juvenile communist)
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To: Mike Darancette
You can expect those names to be changed sometime soon.
74 posted on 12/17/2013 2:41:11 PM PST by quadrant (1o)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Thank you.


75 posted on 12/17/2013 3:34:24 PM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL of you heroes!)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

I’m glad there are people who realize that he wasn’t ALWAYS a traitor...but it only took the one time to be his ruin.


76 posted on 12/17/2013 3:36:00 PM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL of you heroes!)
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To: joe fonebone

“Firing the first shot” is not always the first act of aggression. May I commend to you a book which opened my eyes titled Lincoln Takes Command, by John S. Tilley (1941).


77 posted on 12/17/2013 3:44:54 PM PST by Bill W was a conservative (Profile, detain, interrogate, deport.)
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To: jazusamo

President Eisenhower’s letter concerning why he had a picture of Robert E. Lee hanging in his office is most appropriate.

http://www.schistory.net/SCV/articles/ikesletter.htm


78 posted on 12/17/2013 3:55:10 PM PST by wfu_deacons
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To: Bill W was a conservative

What was the “first” act of aggression that required Confederate officials to open fire on a federal fort that had agreed to be abandoned in three days.


79 posted on 12/17/2013 3:58:56 PM PST by X Fretensis
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To: wfu_deacons

Thank you, that’s most inspiring.


80 posted on 12/17/2013 4:03:05 PM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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