Posted on 05/04/2010 7:20:28 PM PDT by Man50D
A widely regarded Southern symbol of pride and states' rights is standing in the way of would-be Marines in their quest to serve their country – a Confederate battle flag.
Straight out of high school, one 18-year-old Tennessee man was determined to serve his country as a Marine. His friend said he passed the pre-enlistment tests and physical exams and looked forward with excitement to the day he would ship out to boot camp.
But there would be no shouting drill instructors, no rigorous physical training and no action-packed stories for the aspiring Marine to share with his family.
Shortly before he was scheduled to leave Nashville for boot camp, the Marine Corps rejected him.
Now, the young man, who wishes to remain unnamed and declined to be interviewed, has chosen to return to school and is no longer an aspiring Marine.
"I think he just wants to let it go," said former Marine 1st Lt. Gene Andrews, a friend of the man and patriotic Southerner who served in Vietnam from 1968 through 1971. Andrews is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a group of male descendents of Confederate soldiers. He counseled the young man when he decided to become a Marine.
"He had been talking to me, and he was all fired up about joining," he told WND. "He asked my opinion of it, and I just tried to tell him the truth, good points and bad points."
When the young recruit didn't go to boot camp, Andrews learned of his rejection based on his tattoo of the Confederate battle flag on his shoulder.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
you all bitch and complain about them
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Oh hell no!!! We love them. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ They come down from November to December and blow all of their Yankee dollars down here. Snowbirds are great! Every time I go fishing on my boat I thank them.
You can't go and have all the fun!
LOL, I called you that because you are saying things a 10 year old would. Like I’ve never seen a penis I saw that photo, I saved it, I enlarged it, I had several other people look at it and you are the only one that sees a penis. If you would like to post it and point it out by drawing a circle around it, I’ll take another look. If you’re ready to die because someone called you a punk, you have anger management issues.
Come on down to Florida and join in the fun. I have 3 empty guest rooms, right on the ocean. Like to fish or dive?
tornadoes and munchkins
must be missing something here but why are you talking about penis’s?
how old are you internet warrior?
Kansas tornadoes ain’t no joke :( We got caught on the highway. Not a good way to start a honeymoon. We’ve been in a few twisters - Kansas they seem to chase you around.. F5’s F4’s flying cows. to hell with all that
I thought it was queers and steers.
I guess if China sends troops into Indiana, and the US finally gets fed up months later and starts shooting, then we're the "aggressors".
Interesting world you live in.
(Also mighty coincidental how every group of people that wishes to peacefully leave a political boundary is soon attacked by the leaders they are trying to escape... and yet in only one case in History are those who seek independence called the "aggressors". Hm.)
LOL, works for me.
Also mighty coincidental how every group of people that wishes to peacefully leave a political boundary is soon attacked by the leaders they are trying to escape... and yet in only one case in History are those who seek independence called the “aggressors”. Hm
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Amazing, isn’t it?
And your evidence for this is what?
If “slavery” was the reason for TWBTS, why’d he wait so long to mention it?
Why’d he free *some* slaves but not all of them?
Why didn’t the Emancipation Proclamation make ALL slavery [well, *any* slavery, actually] -illegal-?
The proclamation did not name the slave-holding border states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, or Delaware, which had never declared a secession, and so it did not free any slaves there. The state of Tennessee had already mostly returned to Union control, so it also was not named and was exempted. Virginia was named, but exemptions were specified for the 48 counties that were in the process of forming West Virginia, as well as seven other named counties and two cities. Also specifically exempted were New Orleans and thirteen named parishes of Louisiana, all of which were also already mostly under Federal control at the time of the Proclamation.
The Emancipation Proclamation was criticized at the time for freeing only the slaves over which the Union had no power. Although most slaves were not freed immediately, the Proclamation did free thousands of slaves the day it went into effect[2] in parts of nine of the ten states to which it applied (Texas being the exception).[3] In every Confederate state (except Tennessee and Texas), the Proclamation went into immediate effect in Union-occupied areas and at least 20,000 slaves[2][3] were freed at once on January 1, 1863.
Additionally, the Proclamation provided the legal framework for the emancipation of nearly all four million slaves as the Union armies advanced, and committed the Union to ending slavery, which was a controversial decision even in the North. Hearing of the Proclamation, more slaves quickly escaped to Union lines as the Army units moved South. As the Union armies advanced through the Confederacy, thousands of slaves were freed each day until nearly all (approximately 4 million, according to the 1860 census[4]) were freed by July 1865.
Near the end of the war, abolitionists were concerned that while the Proclamation had freed most slaves as a war measure, it had not made slavery illegal. Several former slave states had already passed legislation prohibiting slavery; however, in a few states, slavery continued to be legal, and to exist, until December 18, 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment was enacted.
It was simply a sideshow born of “political expedience” to gin up support for an completely unconstitutional act.
And, here we are again.
Enjoy your federally mandated, unconstitutional health-care system.
[from whom a select group are exempt...deja vu]
very bizarre indeed
Enjoy your federally mandated, unconstitutional health-care system.
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Yea, aren’t we the fortunate ones. pffft
Do you see his private parts? I sure don’t.
The more interesting question is why is there a dead well dressed black man in the background?
no don’t see it which is why I’m a little confused by the mention of a penis in the post.
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