We should all aspire to be as great an American as General Wheeler (pictured on the left, an age 62 volunteer appointed a Major General by President McKinley). That's COL Roosevelt on the Right.
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| Generals Lee and Jackson may be asked to leave Army War College |
| 2013-12-18 |
| [Washington Times] The U.S. Army War College, which molds future field generals, has begun discussing whether it should remove the portraits of Confederate generals, including Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. Lee and Jeff Davis Highways, Fort Bragg, Gettysburg, Confederate cemeteries, fried green tomatoes, also soon to be reviewed. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
#19 Were the portraits put up after the Civil War? How is it we could be more offended now than right after the conflict? Because today we celebrate the ignorant and the insane, treating their ravings as if they have merit. 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. -- Lincoln |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2013-12-18 22:14 |
| #18 I was there in the 80's, but I didn't see any crazy people. Then again, I'm not sure I'd know a crazy person if I met one. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-12-18 18:59 |
| #17 In some weird Steam Punk screw-up and we need serious people with serious horses I know just where to start looking, I'd start looking right here in R'burg. Probably fight cheap too. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-12-18 17:34 |
| #16 Hell who else you gonna get to lead the Cavalry Mitch? Wheeler is still stone cold. Visited his house, with a crazy man curator/caretaker. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-12-18 17:32 |
| #15 We should all aspire to be as great an American as General Wheeler (pictured on the left, an age 62 volunteer appointed a Major General by President McKinley). That's COL Roosevelt on the Right. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-12-18 16:01 |
| #14 (There were at least four ex-Confederate generals (all CSA cavalrymen, for some reason) leading American troops during the Spanish-American War - most notably Joe Wheeler of the Battle of San Juan Hill - which probably explains the Lee and Jackson portraits - it matched the reconciliatory spirit of the times.) |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2013-12-18 15:47 |
| #13 Old Spook, Lee and Jackson were graduates of West Point - this is the War College at the Carlisle Barracks. It didn't exist until after the Spanish-American War. And Lee's deliberately burned the Barracks during the Gettysburg Campaign, so YMMV. Stupid damn PC impulse, any which way. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2013-12-18 15:39 |
| #12 Were the portraits put up after the Civil War? How is it we could be more offended now than right after the conflict? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2013-12-18 14:44 |
| #11 Across the entire spectrum of the federal government, you can see the rot that these progressive agents have planted, or nurtured, eroding every aspect of our culture than they view as "counter-revolutionary". They have accelerated the decline of traditional American culture in ways I never imagined possible, and I think that the "tipping point" as Dennis Miller is so fond of saying, has been passed. The infiltration by active agents of the courts, schools, the press and now the sinews of basic government at so many levels will require things too drastic to contemplate I fear to restore the Republic. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2013-12-18 13:27 |
| #10 Next they'll take back the Commonwealth's (VA) holiday - Lee-Jackson Day. I believe it is the Friday before MLK day. No, I can't believe it is allowed to be a holiday either. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2013-12-18 13:01 |
| #9 Are they going to start renaming many of the Army bases in the South that were named after Confederate generals? (Forts Bragg, Benning, A. P. Hill, Jackson to name a few.) |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2013-12-18 11:31 |
| #8 Good discussion on topic at thisainthell.us |
| Posted by: bman 2013-12-18 11:19 |
| #7 Lee's portrait should be at the AWC. In the uniform of the United States. Perhaps one was made when he was Superintendent. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2013-12-18 09:17 |
| #6 Lee might have had a different outcome at Gettysburg had Jackson been there. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2013-12-18 08:49 |
| #5 Lee and Jeff Davis Highways, Fort Bragg, Gettysburg, Confederate cemeteries, fried green tomatoes, also soon to be reviewed. I'd start by removing portraits of Union generals---the notion that whiteys bleed and died to free the blacks must be offensive to African Americans. no sark. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-12-18 08:28 |
| #4 Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee were graduates, and some of the best generals West Point and the Army have ever produced. ALl this taking town of portraits smacks of stalinist purging. History is what it is, accept it as such. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2013-12-18 05:16 |
| #3 What DOES America believe in? Wear a little earring in your Left ear and have a butterfly tattooed on your butt cheek. And if you were more intelligent ( like Kerry says ) you wouldn't be in the military, you would have a REAL job. You could always be the manager of a Krispie Kreme , if you really wanted to impress your good friends Dwayne and Bruce. America the land of the free cellphone. |
| Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 2013-12-18 04:43 |
| #2 If you like your statues, you can keep your statues......period. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-12-18 00:37 |
| #1 Alternate link site. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-12-18 00:19 |