U.S. Marines boot recruits with Confederate tattoos

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | May 04, 2010 | Chelsea Schilling

[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.

[wardaddy]

He also thinks Lincoln 'had a war to fight to free the slaves'...how can some folks here be so uninformed of history?

"If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also so that" from Abe to Horace 08/1862

Lincoln fought to stop the South from leaving...as did all Yankees....it's fantasy to think otherwise ....Ted Turner's BS docudramas notwithstanding

it's painfully easy to brainwash folks

[Kozak]

Yup, the Confederacy was a foreign enemy that attacked the United States of America.

Vice Versa

[concretebob]

the Confederacy is not a fit symbol for "Southern pride".

That deserves a very loud snort and a WTF?!?!?!
I don't even know where to begin to respond to that statement.

[wardaddy]

We will survive as a coherent culture long after the US has disintegrated from its own policies

Amen kinsman/kinswoman and it's something they will never share nor understand..very few places I've been in the world like Dixie...it's a community

[Psalm 144]

Lincoln is the Stalin of American history.

Obama is correct to compare himelf to Lincoln. Both are half assed attorneys, full fledged bigots, and put their own ideologies over the reality of other people’s lives.

[wardaddy]

amazing to find we have conservatives like this eh?

i noticed this 10 years ago my first day here back when Whiskey Papa and some of the other south bashers had yet to be outed for the lefties they actually were (still true for some here) and I said the same thing...WTF...lol...this ain’t my daddy’s Goldwater right wingerdom here you know?

[Psalm 144]

You will find I am intolerant to the point of violence in the face of insults to Abraham Lincoln.

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That is appropriate.

Lincoln’s intolerance was legendary and his first resort was violence as well.

[artichokegrower]

Yup, the Confederacy was a foreign enemy that attacked the United States of America

So was Great Britain... an we got over that

Not so both of you. For shame you don't even know the life of General Lee.

Please read about Robert E. Lee, one of the greatest generals in the history of western civilization.

You'll see that the Federals, not the United States, attacked Virginia. When Virgina seceded he went home from West Point because Virginia, in the modern parlance, was his HOMELAND.

The Federals marched on Virginia, and the war was begun. It became the war of the 'United States' when Lincoln drafted unwilling soldiers fto fight on the behalf of the Federals. He literally had to send in the militia in New York city, to subdue the unwilling draftees.

That did not happen in Virginia, where Virgina's sons willingly came to her defense, unlike today's citizenry.

[Psalm 144]

Rebel Go Home!

;)

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We tried. The result was a collective honor killing by the rejected other half.

[taxcontrol]

Considering that in the War of 1812 the British burned the White House and attacked other US interests ... I would like to know how you come to the conclusion that the British never attacked the United States.

[kabar]

State Flag of Mississippi

[eyedigress]

Let it ride...

[txhurl]

Burning courthouses that held deeds was a major Union crime.

[concretebob]

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Lincoln was a liberator, not a Stalin.

The Yankee army enters Red Clay, Georgia as related by Illinois soldier Charles Partridge:

"The Union citizens were quite demonstrative, some of them even bringing out flags, which had doubtless been hidden for at least three years. Women swung their bonnets and men hurrahed for the Yankees and the Union, manifesting great delight. One man, who claimed to be ninety-eight years old and to have been a captain in the War of 1812, was almost frantic in his ejaculations when the Old Flag came into sight."

[tarheelswamprat]

i noticed this 10 years ago my first day here back when Whiskey Papa and some of the other south bashers had yet to be outed for the lefties they actually were...

Ah yes. Good old "Wlat" (Walt). ;) Where did the time go... /g

[TNdandelion]

That's really interesting. Are you speaking of the southern parts of Northern states because most accounts I've read and researched showed showed quite a bit of pillaging, rape, deliberate destruction of crops and homes and in some cases...outright torture by those Yankee troops. Although they came to free the slaves, ironically, the free black people and slaves didn't fare much better when it came to property damage and molestation of women. It seems the tales those Yanks had heard made it hard to believe that any black person in the South could actually own property and viewed the women as chattel.

I am sure you could name a few Southern towns in the border states who where glad to see the Yankee army but I wouldn't characterize it as "by many in Southern towns." That's just ridiculous.

[joseph20]

Yup, the Confederacy was a foreign enemy that attacked the United States of America.

Wow. Quite a false statement there! It was in no way foreign. The very blood and soil of the Confederacy was domestic.

[concretebob]

and Mississippi

[eyedigress]

He has no clue about America and her folks. Let it go.