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    Default The Confederate origins of Memorial Day

    https://www.pri.org/stories/2009-05-...s-memorial-day

    First it was the statues. Memorial day is next on the chopping block. GO LEFT!
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    https://www.archives.gov/publication...urrenders.html

    The South surrendered in total defeat to the North.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    https://www.archives.gov/publication...urrenders.html

    The South surrendered in total defeat to the North.
    so yes to cancelling memorial day?
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    Quote Originally Posted by tsuke View Post
    so yes to cancelling memorial day?
    “I pledge that I will be loyal to the United States of America, and recognize that it is one nation…Though I be murderous, verminous, lying Missouri scum…” [Open fire]!!!!!

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    No one begrudges southern women in 1865 placing flowers on the graves of their sons and husbands.

    But Memorial Day is for recognizing soldiers of the United States military.

    The confederates were not a United States military, nor were they even a formal Army fighting for honor and distinction. They were treasonous rebel militias fighting the Army of the United States and on behalf of a slave economy.

    Memorial Day History

    Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans — the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) — established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan declared that Decoration Day should be observed on May 30. It is believed that date was chosen because flowers would be in bloom all over the country.

    source: United States Department of Veterans Affairs
    https://www1.va.gov/opa/speceven/memday/history.asp

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    No one begrudges southern women in 1865 placing flowers on the graves of their sons and husbands.

    But Memorial Day is for recognizing soldiers of the United States military.

    The confederates were not a United States military, nor were they even a formal Army fighting for honor and distinction. They were treasonous rebel militias fighting the Army of the United States and on behalf of a slave economy.
    I think it was a waste of perfectly good flowers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tsuke View Post
    https://www.pri.org/stories/2009-05-...s-memorial-day

    First it was the statues. Memorial day is next on the chopping block. GO LEFT!
    No one gives a fuck about any confederate origins of Memorial Day. It isn't celebrated as a confederate anything.

    ... and yes, HELL YES, confederate monuments and symbols will continue to end up in the trash .. as it should be.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    No one begrudges southern women in 1865 placing flowers on the graves of their sons and husbands.

    But Memorial Day is for recognizing soldiers of the United States military.

    The confederates were not a United States military, nor were they even a formal Army fighting for honor and distinction. They were treasonous rebel militias fighting the Army of the United States and on behalf of a slave economy.
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    AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.

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    Tearing down monuments will never wipe away the war of northern aggression

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    https://www.archives.gov/publication...urrenders.html

    The South surrendered in total defeat to the North.
    the south ran out of bullets, period.
    if you would like to read up on the ins and outs of that war it is a really interesting story
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    Quote Originally Posted by blackascoal View Post
    No one gives a fuck about any confederate origins of Memorial Day. It isn't celebrated as a confederate anything.

    ... and yes, HELL YES, confederate monuments and symbols will continue to end up in the trash .. as it should be.
    your racism is sad.
    Have you considered another country, Canada loves folks like you
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    Quote Originally Posted by I Love America View Post
    Tearing down monuments will never wipe away the war of northern aggression
    "The Great War of Northern Aggression" was the way it was taught in grade school in South Carolina.
    Interesting how different segments of our country were taught different history lessons.
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    Ripping down Civil war monuments, trying to erase history is akin to ripping down the concentration camps memorials in Poland.
    Instead of using them as teaching moments at the reality of actual events in history, The PC police think acting like they never happened, ripping out any reminders will send this message to the very small group of
    people that may hold theses monuments as their badge of racism honor.

    The civil war was fought for many reasons, the least of which was racism.
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