we will never forget
Posted on 10/11/2015 10:08:23 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
On a warm day in August, a couple dozen people gathered for an afternoon picnic at Shawnee Mission Park.
Under the shade of a shelter surrounded by leafy green trees, two men cooked burgers and brats on a charcoal grill next to a row of tables topped with red plastic tablecloths and a summery spread of sliced watermelon, barbecue-flavored potato chips and sopapilla cheesecake. The weather would have been perfect if not for occasional gusts of wind that whipped through the grove and threatened to topple the three flags fixed to portable poles next to the dessert table: an American flag, a Kansas flag and a Confederate battle flag.
The picnic is an annual event for the Major Thomas J. Key Camp No. 1920, a local branch of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The nonprofit organization for male descendants of soldiers who fought for the South in the Civil War has 98,000 members worldwide, including 1,445 in Missouri and 480 in Kansas. And its ranks are growing.
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“Personally I don’t have a problem with them as an organization or the Confederate flag.”
That’s mighty white of you.
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It is supposedly a free country. They can do what they want.
we will never forget
You shouldn’t. They lost and there were actually free blacks who fought for the South. The fact is, the worldview of Slavery was universal and supported still in Africa and Islam and most Eastern countries-—so why apologize for the worldview which originated in other countries as if it was a “Confederate” idea. They inherited it-—like all Traditions.
The need to learn TRUE history is essential for intellectual advancement. The idea about eliminating the Truth-—hiding history is Marxism and so that they can reinvent “history” and make an artificial “utopia” so they can control every single idea (enslave) a person is allowed to have.
That enslavement——needs the elimination of all human history and the idea of Christianity (Individual God-Given Rights) for the State to make a total slave out of little Johnny. American civilization has to be twisted—changed and erased in the minds for future NWO. Only America promoted the concept of Individualism (instead of collective mindset).
When we glorify the War and those brilliant soldiers in the South-—we demonize the evil of Slavery, not the virtues of Courage and Perseverence which is essential to Life-—that is essential that we LEARN what is EVIL, only by understanding history. No person is perfect. ALL people are sinners. All people can be torn down which is dangerous to a Nation-—to tear down the geniuses of the Nation. It destroys patriotism and unity.
Discerning Good and Evil is Wisdom (Cicero).
Erase history-—and we will repeat all the mistakes made, over and over. The Leftists want us ALL to be slaves-—not just like the South who had a few slaves. Most people in the South, never had slaves and even Blacks owned slaves-—so this trying to demonize ONE group and ONE area—is really nothing but Marxism-—and EVIL. Marxism is always about demonizing groups to destroy unity in a country so it collapses.
It was might white of the United States to put an end to slavery in this country at the expense of the lives of hundreds of white soldiers. Too bad the Blacks and Muslims in Africa and the Middle East never got around to ending slavery in their neck of the woods.
They might want to bring a lawnmower to the Chattanooga Confederate Cemetery. It looks like crap compared to the National Cemetery there.
Except that it only became a “confederate idea” when they broke away from the union and went to war against their own neighbors in order to perpetuate the Peculiar Institution.
That said, I can honor the memory of the soldier without endorsing or condoning the war they waged against the United States.
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No problem what so ever . I do have problem with those who yet again are offended over something which is part of the history
Not funny.
“It was might white of the United States to put an end to slavery in this country at the expense of the lives of hundreds of white soldiers. Too bad the Blacks and Muslims in Africa and the Middle East never got around to ending slavery in their neck of the woods.”
When suffering associated with slavery and the Civil War is discussed the fate of poor white farmer families who did not own slaves during and after the Civil War is rarely mentioned. While Robert E. Lee’s Confederates were respectful of the civilian population during his incursions into the North, Union soldiers raped, pillaged, and plundered their way across the South. Sherman and his men deliberately committed what today’s moralistic liberals would characterize as “war crimes” on white civilians as well as the freed slaves. After the war millions of non-slave owning whites were left homeless losing their land, their crops, their livestock, and their personal possessions. Many starved and those who survived became sharecroppers (a form of servitude). Northern investors built textile mills in the late 19th century to take advantage of poor black and white people in the South economically binding them to the company through the debt to the company store and the squalid company housing in the mill towns.
I look on the Confederate flag as a symbol of treason and separation. We have one flag- The Stars and Stripes. The flag our soldiers have fought under to vanquish tyranny around the world time and again and it is the flag our men and women serve under today. It sure as hell isn’t the flag being raised on Mt. Surabachi. Do I think slavery was racist? No. I see it as the forced enslavement of people as a source of servitude and hard labor with no compensation save being keep alive and feed long enough to produce work and the ever present threat of capricious punishment and the threat of being sold off to some other slave owner. Slavery was not only confined to blacks. Through out history people of all races have been enslaved. The simple fact is the North went to war to preserve the Union and won. The South went to war to preserve slavery and lost everything.
I see that Common Core history is alive and well...
Not condoning Shermans methods but he said “War is cruel. The crueler it is the sooner it’s over’’.
typo”: meant say “The Stars and Bars isn’t the flag being raised on Mt. Surabachi’’.
My family suffered in many ways exactly in the manner you described. Our country at large was the primary benefactor of putting an end to the institution of slavery. The great tragedy is that we couldn’t find a way to do it without war.
Screw you. You can’t accept the truth, Confederate. I went to Catholic schools.
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