West Point kicks off process to remove Confederate monuments on campus

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signalmankenneth

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It's long overdue too!

CNN —
The US Military Academy will begin removing Confederate monuments from its campus, including a portrait of Robert E. Lee that shows him wearing a Confederate uniform.

The academy will undergo a “multi-phased process” during the holiday break to remove all 13 identified references and installations honoring the Confederacy, the academy’s superintendent, Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland, wrote in a letter to the West Point community last week.

That includes the portrait of Lee from the library, a stone bust of Lee from the campus’ Reconciliation Plaza and a “bronze triptych” at the entrance to Bartlett Hall.

“We will conduct these actions with dignity and respect,” he wrote. “In the case of those items that were class gifts (specifically, Honor Plaza and Reconciliation Plaza), we will continue to work closely with those classes throughout this process.”

The changes at West Point were approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in October and are part of a larger set of recommendations proposed by the Naming Commission, which was mandated by Congress last year in the National Defense Authorization Act.

“The Commission’s thorough and historically informed work has put the Department on a path to meet Congressional intent – and to remove from U.S. military facilities all names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederacy,” Austin wrote in a memo approving the recommendations.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/25/politics/west-point-to-remove-confederate-monuments/index.html
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Will the Taliban and ISIS be invited.

They are skilled at destroying historical monuments.
 
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The 1913 Gettysburg reunion was a Gettysburg Battlefield encampment of American Civil War veterans
for the Battle of Gettysburg’s 50th anniversary. The June 29–July 4 gathering of 53,407 veterans (~8,750 Confederate)
was the largest ever Civil War veteran reunion, and “never before in the world’s history [had] so great a number of men so advanced in years been assembled under field conditions” (Chief Surgeon). All honorably discharged veterans in the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans were invited, and veterans from 46 of the 48 states attended (cf. Nevada).Despite concerns “that there might be unpleasant differences, at least, between the blue and gray” (as after England’s War of the Roses and the French Revolution), the peaceful reunion was repeatedly marked by events of Union–Confederate camaraderie.

President Woodrow Wilson’s July 4 reunion address summarized the spirit: “We have found one another again as brothers and comrades in arms, enemies no longer, generous friends rather, our battles long past, the quarrel forgotten—except that we shall not forget the splendid valor.”
 
The Confederates were like Trump's insurrectionists. They were trying to overthrow the government and end the American experiment. They were fighting for slavery.
Lee on statues of the Confederacy
I think it wiser not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations that committed to obliterating the marks of strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings that they engender."
Those who post backing confederate statues are showing how right R.E. Lee was.
There is much lingering anger and division in the American south and northern bigots. We could have erased that.
 
I remember when all the Republicans cheered as Sodom Hussein’s statue was toppled in Baghdad by American troops.
 
Good. There's no good reason to be honoring defeated traitors to the country who sought to break away from the country to preserve slavery. Especially not at the Army academy of the Army that literally fought and defeated those fucking traitors.
 
signalmankenneth said:
It's long overdue too!

CNN —
The US Military Academy will begin removing Confederate monuments from its campus, including a portrait of Robert E. Lee that shows him wearing a Confederate uniform.

The academy will undergo a “multi-phased process” during the holiday break to remove all 13 identified references and installations honoring the Confederacy, the academy’s superintendent, Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland, wrote in a letter to the West Point community last week.

That includes the portrait of Lee from the library, a stone bust of Lee from the campus’ Reconciliation Plaza and a “bronze triptych” at the entrance to Bartlett Hall.

“We will conduct these actions with dignity and respect,” he wrote. “In the case of those items that were class gifts (specifically, Honor Plaza and Reconciliation Plaza), we will continue to work closely with those classes throughout this process.”

The changes at West Point were approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in October and are part of a larger set of recommendations proposed by the Naming Commission, which was mandated by Congress last year in the National Defense Authorization Act.

“The Commission’s thorough and historically informed work has put the Department on a path to meet Congressional intent – and to remove from U.S. military facilities all names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederacy,” Austin wrote in a memo approving the recommendations.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/25/politics/west-point-to-remove-confederate-monuments/index.html

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You are a special kind of idiot. Love the thom hartmann types of assholes that spend their day telling America to erase its history.
 
Lionfish said:
You are a special kind of idiot. Love the thom hartmann types of assholes that spend their day telling America to erase its history.
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Fortunately, no one is "erasing history." People are just choosing what to honor & celebrate, and what not to.

Me? I come down firmly in the "let's not celebrate slavery anymore" camp.
 
Lionfish said:
You are a special kind of idiot. Love the thom hartmann types of assholes that spend their day telling America to erase its history.
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It is not about our history, It is as Lee said, it is about the feelings and hate that they create. They are statues of separation. We should have never put them up.
 
BartenderElite said:
Fortunately, no one is "erasing history." People are just choosing what to honor & celebrate, and what not to.

Me? I come down firmly in the "let's not celebrate slavery anymore" camp.
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Then just look the other direction when you pass one. Like it or not, they existed. Deal with it.
 
Lionfish said:
Then just look the other direction when you pass one. Like it or not, they existed. Deal with it.
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That's a lazy answer. Would you tell Germans that if they had statues of famous Nazis still standing?

Please. Complete insensitivity in your remark. We shouldn't celebrate those who wanted to perpetuate slavery. It's as simple an issue as we have.
 
VDH said recently the West Point was well on its way to being WOKE 15-20 years ago....the military was targeted by the Revolution early.
 
BartenderElite said:
That's a lazy answer. Would you tell Germans that if they had statues of famous Nazis still standing?

Please. Complete insensitivity in your remark. We shouldn't celebrate those who wanted to perpetuate slavery. It's as simple an issue as we have.
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Frankly, I don't care what German are put up or which statues remain.
 
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