The Rewriting Of American History
Dear Editor,
On Sept. 2, 2023, a public comment period will end on the subject of removing the Confederate memorial from the Arlington National Cemetery.
This is part of this liberal, whiny, communist national committee that was formed to do away with anything related to the War Between the States in an attempt to pacify and buy votes for the (National Socialist) Democrat Party.
Arlington National Cemetery was created by a Union general who thought it would be a way of insulting Confederate General Robert E. Lee by burying Union dead on his land. It became the National Cemetery for the internment of those that made the ultimate sacrifice for our great country.
The Civil War, or War Between the States, was and still is a dark portion of American history. One that needs to be remembered, not covered up by removing it and everything connected to it from the history books. If you are going to do that, then you need to rewrite all of American history from the early founding of this this country on.
This is just one part of the insanity taking place in places like California. Oh wait, it’s not just there. It seems High Point has caught the bug and is looking at giving people money for nothing. I believe this is a subversive means of buying votes, but nobody on the High Point City Council would do that. We better be careful or some of the county commissioners might start getting ideas.
I guess we need to start looking for those that had ancestors who were members of the Nazi Party and take actions against them since they killed American soldiers. The same for descendants of the Communist Party, since they did the same. I want money for that.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
I would slightly modify that quote. Those who cannot remember (or worse ignore and rewrite) the past are condemned to repeat it. And I will say again what I have said and still believe – the inmates are running the asylum, and I will add they are taking the rest of us to hell with them because all we seem to do is stand by and watch.
Carpe diem,
Alan Marshall
You’re a dinosaur. I am from 12 generations of Carolinians. My heritage includes confederate soldiers and Revolutionary War soldiers too. But its time to move on. You sir are drinking a 100 year old jar of Kool-Aid. This is a losing effort. The confederate memorabilia will all be gone in a decade, if not before. The South lost, slavery was real and horrific and its time to stop celebrating. Accept it.
You’re wrong about a couple things, the statues may be gone but the memory will be stronger and we will still fly our flag with pride. I’ll bet your ancestors are proud that you grew up to be such a pansey a$$.
You fly your pride flag, Rebel!
My PRIDE flag is called the stars and bars with only 2 colors I’m betting yours doesn’t match this description
No, you are mistaken. The erasure of selected history is profoundly totalitarian.
Future generations need to see the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
You insult me sir. Please show me where I am “…celebrating…” slavery,
And just for the record sir, my heritage includes a number of Confederate ancestors which include Col James K Marshall, Brigade Commander of the 26th North Carolina who was part of the left wing of the Pickett’s Charge.
I also have a relative buried in Hamilton Ohio designated as a Hero of the Revolution for actions in the War of Independence, and I am a direct descendant of both Gen George C Marshall of the Marshalll Plan, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall. Am I proud of my heritage? Damn straight I am!
I may be a dinosaur sir, but I’m a DAMN PROUD military patriotic dinosaur as are my uncle, my father, my son, and two of my grandsons.
Again I say “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
And I mixed that 100 y.o. Kool-Aid with an older Scotch. L’Chaim
Iechyd Da, Alan !
You nailed it again, Alan. You are 100% correct. Thanks for all of your meaningful letters.
Your ancestors fought for a disgraceful POS enemy of the United States. For a confederation of states that wanted to protect slavery. That is who YOU are.
Please put your confederate flags away and clean up your yard. You un-American pissant.
Unarmed citizen , why don’t you go around and clean our yards, pick up the leaves then take down our flags but I’ll give you a little advice you had better arm yourself
UC – You epitomize the Yankees.
First, I don’t fly Confederate flags, I do respect those that choose to do so
Second, Everybody keeps talking about slavery as if it were the ONLY reason for the war. Please study your history and try to quit being a mindless drone. And for the record I would have been against slavery had I lived then.
Third, you’re welcome, it was a pleasure and an honor to have served protecting you…people that know me will understand.
It was the only reason for the Civil war. Read your history books and not your white nationalist propaganda.
The victors write the history books.
More right-wing drama queen rants from Alan. No one wants to erase the history of the Civil war.
One trick of people who spread misinformation (or parrot those who do), is to make up their own assumption of why someone or some group has done something to make it sound more ominous than it actually is. Here Alan wants to say, that democrats want to erase history. Nope. Many just want to remove statues that honor people that tried to divide America so they could continue to brutalize human beings for profit.
To erase history, requires rewriting of millions of history books written and studied about the Civil war. No one is doing that here. You can still access a library full of civil war books
….you be you. Even if you are a drama queen.
FYI, more drama…I don’t believe High Point has yet released the type of reparations (that is scheduled for 8-15) they are proposing so again…more misleading information from Alan. They just might…but factually, they haven’t yet proposed any such thing. (For those that actually care about the truth).
You’re wrong, Chris. All you have to observe is the “man in the street” interviews of our young people from the last 25-30 years to discover they have no knowledge of the War of Northern Aggression, or if they do, it’s slanted towards a JohnDewey-type socialist indoctrination. It’s sad.
chris, chris, chris, you really need to take some remedial reading classes.
How do you get “Alan wants to say, that democrats want to erase history.” from “The Civil War, or War Between the States, was and still is a dark portion of American history. One that needs to be remembered…”
I know you consistently stretch (to the breaking point) your so called counterpoints. And if you take off your rose colored blinders and look back 40, 50, 60 years you will see how American history classes consistently over time reduce the amount of time on subjects that don’t fit the liberal narrative or are morphed into something to fit their agenda.
Also, please show me where I said High point has released details on their ridiculous proposal. I said “It seems High Point has caught the bug and is looking at giving people money for nothing.” I wrote “…LOOKING AT…” I take it for granted you CAN read and understand written English
“…was formed to do away with anything related to the War Between the States in an attempt to pacify and buy votes….”
“…One that needs to be remembered, not covered up by removing it and everything connected to it from the history books.”
You are such Drama queen you don’t even realize the implications of what you parrot.
https://news.yahoo.com/reparations-board-adopts-report-064600374.html
You are so ignorant. Note per this above article published before your silly rant that High Point did NOT propose making cash payments. But don’t let facts get in the way or your rants.
“It seems High Point has caught the bug and is looking at giving people money for nothing.”
“looking at” chris, “looking at”! I seriously am beginning to believe you not only can’t read but don’t understand English. And you seen to love twisting things to suit you agenda.
Pathetic
Oh my God…I fell into the trap my grandmother warned me about…”never argue with a fool. You’ll always lose and look more foolish then you opponent”
Lol what a drama queen. Trying to duck your misinformation with semantics. A common trick of people who spread unwarranted hate and misinformation typically lack the courage to stand behind their statements, so duck and dodge avoid looking the hateful fool that they really are.
When the Confederate States lost the war for their independence, the entire country lost a brake on the aggrandizement and overreach of the Federal Government. Following the failure of the War for Southern Independence it has become impossible for any state, or group of states to leave the Union – and the Feds know it.
So ask yourself this:
What kind of Union holds you in it at gunpoint?
I suppose if they were fighting a righteous war, they would have one.
In God They Trust.
Who said the right side always wins?
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“Defeat is no refutation” – Robert E. Lee
Only traitors wish to divide this great country. But what would we expect from someone that comes from a country of fools who left the EU and are now paying the price of listening to the misinformation from their leadership.
OMG, you’re really a right wanker aren’t you, Chrissy?
Were the American rebels also traitors in 1776? They sure were by all contemporaneous legal standards, and many people excoriated them for it. So do you support those traitors? Or are some “traitors” good, and others bad?
Chrissy is such a sheep that any resistance to authority is heinous to his little Acceptor/Obeyer personality. He’s the kind of sheep who’ll always rally behind whatever he perceives is the controlling, powerful entity or individual, like all the weak children who shockingly supported the schoolyard bully.
And the UK is doing just fine without the EU. And we’re free.
Austin, I just thought of a standard reply for his silly ravings. Join in if you like.
chris…talk to the hand
Traitors to England. Yes. They were very much considered traitors by England. Or did you skip that class while in school back home? Duh.
England was more free within the EU. Free to cross boarders. Free trade within the EU. LOL. What a joke.
So you support some traitors, but not others. Then your epithet has no sting, it becomes irrelevant in itself.
And your ignorance is on display regarding the EU. “England” (you mean the UK, but your ignorance is again on display) was explicitly subservient to Brussels in all matters save national defence. Any conflict in UK law and EU law resulted in British law being disregarded even if our law was centuries older than the EU’s.
Now the British people are once again free to chart our own course. And we still travel anywhere in the EU, just as an American like you can. You don’t know what you’re talking about, idiot.
YOU are the joke.
Confederate soldiers were defending their homes against invasion by Yankees, from whom they had tried to gain an amicable divorce. (It bears repeating that North Carolina did not secede until Lincoln demanded soldiers from NC to invade the 7 Deep South states that had declared their independence.)
My point is that there is nothing dishonorable about Confederate soldiers. The people who have erected memorials to them at their own expense knew them and the reality of the time much better than we do and were motivated by love and appreciation. It isn’t right to erase their existence.
You are spot on in your comment. Lincoln did not care one whit about ending slavery, and neither did the Northern power brokers, until 1863. They wanted to save the Union and prevent the South from withholding their raw materials and taxes. Lincoln hatched a plan to export and resettle slaves in Africa.
Dividing our great country so you can continue to brutalize other human beings for profit is highly dishonorable. Period.
“Dividing our Great Empire so you can continue to brutalize other human beings for profit is highly dishonorable. Period.” – GEORGE III
Did you just make me king!?
He may have but of what the Rhino couldn’t publish
The author mentioned taking action against the children of NAZI soldiers, a rediculous correlation. A more appropriate correlation would be: imagine having NAZI monuments at Normandy and folks were having meetings to decide if they need to be removed.
No George, you are incorrect.
First off, my point is why should those that had no involvement should be expected to pay for their ancestors sins, especially using my example when I’ve spoken to decedents who have expressed their shame for what their ancestors participated in. Also given what the NAZI party did makes you correlation ridiculous. Please show me where the Confederate States of America slaughtered over 6 million people for no other reason then being of a certain belief.
In short sir, I respectfully call BS on your argument.
Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million captured men, women, and children were put on ships in Africa, and 10.7 million arrived in the Americas. The Atlantic Slave Trade was likely the most costly in human life of all long-distance global migrations.
That is what your ancestors fought to continue so yeah….millions brutalized and died for thier sins for no other reason than greed. But you be you.
Long before Europeans captured Africans and enslaved them, Africans on the Mediterranean coast were capturing and enslaving white Europeans in far greater numbers and for a far greater period of time.
The were awful people too. Just like southern plantation owners. Your point?
1526-1867? Doesn’t that mean that within that time period some of YOUR ancestors participated in as well?
I don’t and won’t try to vocalize support for the institution of slavery. My whole point was that we cannot try to cover over this portion of our history.
Ignoring it, to the general masses, means it didn’t happen. That is foolish and wrong.
No one is asking for this history to be covered. Just to not put the those that fought to divide the United States on pedestals. Stop honoring those that fought for the right to continue to brutalize other human beings for profit. Not complicated.
Yep you are correct. Just waiting on the next revolution. Also, Guilford Couny and Greensboro City Council are light years ahead of the clowns in High Point. Look at all the pet projects from both county and city and the yearly waste.
“Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.” Captain John Parker April 19th 1775
Well said, Austin. Note how the Federal government flagrantly flouts the immigration laws, and the States absorb the abuse with little recourse. A marriage where one side may not leave is destined to be abusive.
Thank you, Will.
We live in strange times. If Scotland had voted to secede fro the UK in 2014 and the British Army had destroyed Scottish farmland, had burned down Scottish towns, demonized Scottish Independence leaders, and wiped out Scotland’s economy for generations, the World (and especially the Let) would be outraged!
But when Lincoln, Sherman and Grant did all that to the Southern states it was just fine.
The Yankees were the first fascists.
Comparing two counties’ union to the United States union of independent states is just silly and shows your lack of understanding of American history. But you be you.
Why is it silly?
It’s a perfect analogy.
It just makes you uncomfortable because it displays the totalitarianism of the Union, and the fascism of Lincoln.
Perfect like Trump’s ‘Perfect phone call’. LMAO
You’re right. Any union that’s coercive is abusive.
Anyone who fights to divide is a fool.
So the 18th Century colonial rebels who fought to divide our great Empire were fools, were they…?
All this mud-slinging serves no purpose. All it does is make everybody mad.
You are right Miller.
And i don’t know why it’s taken me so long to realize it but chris doesn’t believe all this meadow muffin stuff he/she spouts. He/She just didn’t get enough attention earlier in life.
Oh no, Miller. It’s great fun!
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I love hitting Leftists up the head with truth and logic.