Much more at the link.
Please edify yourself then share far and wide. Especially at your VFW or American Legion Post.
Essentially all of these Civil War memorials are to American Veterans and are therefore US Veterans Memorials.
The VA, VFW and American Legion need to get busy here.
And all Americans need to protect these memorials just like they would the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC.
They are the same, by law and by military convention and honor.
1 posted on
08/17/2017 11:13:49 AM PDT by
Mariner
To: Mariner
I’m kinda confused. The only way they could be considered “NOT” American veterans would be if they won the war and successfully became another country. But they lost, so they were always a part of the US.
To: Mariner
With this maybe some U.S. folks will have greater understanding of Japanese respect for their war dead.
Men fight for “their country” and rarely for or against the “noble ideals” of the political class.
3 posted on
08/17/2017 11:20:36 AM PDT by
Wuli
To: Mariner
With all these communists running wild today, I can only think this:
“Union” Federals - in the heat of battle! - had less animus to the Confederate rebels than these pathetic commie loser bastards so safely removed from their grasp!
6 posted on
08/17/2017 11:22:23 AM PDT by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: Mariner
11 posted on
08/17/2017 11:30:39 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.))
To: Mariner
So, basically we are at the point of deconstructing Reconstruction?
-PJ
16 posted on
08/17/2017 11:36:35 AM PDT by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: Mariner
And “Americans” IMO, regardless who thinks otherwise!
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19 posted on
08/17/2017 11:41:44 AM PDT by
gunnyg
("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
To: Mariner
And some of these Confederate veterans were ...
... wait for it ...
... black.
To: Mariner
Very interesting, thanks for posting.
27 posted on
08/17/2017 12:03:34 PM PDT by
rdl6989
To: Mariner
At Lundy’s Lane in the cemetery with American Loyalists and 1812 Canadians, there are the graves containing Americans with the tombstones indicating “Unknown American” and the year...
Enemies lying side by side...
The American soldiers treated with respect and buried along with the home boys...
The first time I saw the graves I thought how nice to do that..but then that’s how people acted 200 years ago..
What happened to people since ???
To: Mariner
33 posted on
08/17/2017 1:15:45 PM PDT by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
To: GreyFriar
37 posted on
08/17/2017 4:22:18 PM PDT by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Mariner
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.The sad truth is that few of the modern would-be iconoclasts could recognize, let alone place, these words.
38 posted on
08/17/2017 5:15:35 PM PDT by
AustinBill
(consequence is what makes our choices real)
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