The editorial board of the New York Times chose Memorial Day weekend to pen a 2,000-word screed linking the U.S. military with the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacy because we have bases named after soldiers of the former Confederacy.
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The following is a letter that President Eisenhower wrote in response to why he had a picture of General Lee in his office, a response I well concur with.
August 9, 1960
Dear Dr. Scott:
Respecting your August 1 inquiry calling attention to my often expressed admiration for General Robert E. Lee, I would say, first, that we need to understand that at the time of the War between the States the issue of secession had remained unresolved for more than 70 years. Men of probity, character, public standing and unquestioned loyalty, both North and South, had disagreed over this issue as a matter of principle from the day our Constitution was adopted.
General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was a poised and inspiring leader, true to the high trust reposed in him by millions of his fellow citizens; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history.
From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation’s wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.
Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall.
Sincerely,
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Maybe I’ll make a blog post out of this…
Doesn’t it seem to you that the left in all their ‘virtue signaling’ has created their own set of ’10 commandments’?
They don’t want to use the ones developed by God, no… they don’t believe in God. All those commandments are flagrantly opposed.
Heaven forbid (no, wrong… they don’t believe in God) that we use any of those commandments.
I don’t have a list of the virtuous commandments, as I’m really only beginning to develop this theme, But a big main one would be ‘tolerance’. Tolerance replaces Love, virtue signaling replaces good behavior.
Prayers go out to LT. Col. Allen West. May he make a full recovery. I would follow that man any where. A great American leader.
Naming forts and ships after great minority warriors is good, but the thought of the USS Obama makes me gag.
I’ll happily name a sub USS Obama, if it gets us a USS Trump CVN 83. See also USS Carter v USS Reagan and USS LBJ v USS Bush.
It’s quite obvious that the know nothings at the New York Slimes, et al, are trying to rewrite American history. Most, if not all, of the Confederate generals, and many of lower rank, graduated from West Point. They all fought battles as Union officers before the Civil War. When that war started many of them thought long and hard about which side they would take. At that time they were more beholden to the state than the fed. As a result they chose the Confederate side. It was a complicated situation. But then I wouldn’t expect the NY Slimes folks to have the where-with-all to deal with complicated situations.
Complicated situations involving their honor.
Read accounts of the Mexican American War. Odd to hear how LtCol Lee and Col Hooker did such and such supported by cavalry commanded by Cpt. Sherman and Cpt Longstreet. That kinda thing.
Dear NYT editorial board , these bases were named by the winning side to honor the gallantry and courage of their vanquished one time enemy and now their returned brothers. Honor, Gallantry, Courage , Brotherhood these are concepts between military men but sadly unknown by the likes of you .
I was born in 1950 and witnessed the changing of the South over all the years of my life. My experiences are that we in the Deep South have grown far beyond racial prejudice and get along with each other just fine. Yes, there’s some hold-outs with biases in both races, but over all, we’re doing well. On the other side of the coin, I’ve seen the other areas of the nation do the opposite. Racial tensions abound in far too many areas that were once calm. It’s a damned shame and I lay the blame precisely where it belongs…at the feet of liberal Democrats. I’ve watched as they’ve actively and, now, blatantly pushed the festering of prejudice between the races. They’ve been doing that since the founding of their party and will never stop until their party is no more. The Obama administration pushed the hardest for division and now we have the thankless job of healing what they did and are continuing to do. I’m glad I live in a place that went through the healing and pretty much kept the wound closed through Obama’s reign of terror. We in the South learned the hard way that getting along with each other is of primary importance. Now it’s time for the rest of the country to do the same.
At some point we have to accept that venomous snakes bite any passerby. Heroes are targeted just like John Q. When the culture has adopted the idea that savaging is okay as long as you savage equally…Well, our best are placed in harms way with the rest of us. Dignity, decency, and decorum are all antiquated notions chained to the ankles of dinosaurs and relics according to the sort that write this septic effluence.
No offense to anyone here but before America’s 8 years of daily lectures about how racist, sexist, whatever phobic and generally wrong headed we are as a country started in 2008, I do not recall any significant society changing protests or general discontent about naming of mountains, lakes, parks, rivers, buildings, military bases or equipment or statues or EVEN the flying of the flag commonly referred to as the “Confederate Flag” which flew over government buildings in South Carolina until 2015. Now I am constantly seeing new wannabe victims claiming offense at names and objects that have in most cases been part of America for over 50 years many over 100 years. Seems that whats his name who wanted so badly to “fundamentally transform America” in some part sadly succeeded.
For the longest time, the Confederate flag was seen, not as racist, but as a sign of defiance to “The Man”. We wanna do what we wanna do. To be free… to ride our machines, at Peter Fonda once said. It was worn and flown as a sign of “rebellion” against authority.
But hey, I’m from Texas. We have a lot less attachment to the flag than some states farther east.
Yes, the NYT bellies up yet again to a table with plates full of bulls%#t, of which they happily create and consume, designed specifically to bring down another cherished and honorable American institution that has often required the ultimate sacrifice in defending liberty. You don’t deserve to even live here, much less use this liberty, bought by blood and sacrifice, to vomit your hatred and evil on the rest of us who respect and honor this great country. Damn you.
The power of words
Especially the god like power those who believe that if they change the name of the thing, the thing is changed to what they mean by the new name. This is based upon the belief that if they change the definition of a word, the thing the word points to changes to match the new definition. Alternatively, if they don’t name the thing, it no longer exists. This too is based upon the belief that if they change the definition of the name not mentioned, the thing that name refers to changes to match the new definition.
it is in this way that they build a universe in which they feel safe. This is partly because they believe they can understand it because they created it. The universe, for them, does not exist as a comprehensible thing. For them, an existent thing cannot be known in itself BECUASE it requires a process of reason: logic applied to experience and experiment. They wish that it were something that can be bent to their will simply because they will it to be that way.
When the universe doesn’t cooperate, out come the jack booted thugs, the whips, the guns, and the arbitrary non-objective laws that permit them to use those things to force the non-believers to say they believe OR ELSE! They call arbitrary edicts “science” and output of totally failed models “data”. They issue massive numbers of totalitarian words and actions reportedly based upon their “science” and “data”. They have created this scam of a lockdown out of their own fear. The baseless edicts, have been extended without limit based simply upon their whim of the moment. Sadly we have gone along with it.
Insanity you say? Yes but insanity let loose with the power of the government gun can cause endless harm. A harm, if left unchecked, can destroy everything on this earth that is worth having.
I moved about three and a half years ago, from New York City, where I spent the majority of my working years, to East Tennessee, not too far from where I was raised. I didn’t know, exactly, what I would see in the category of race relations, though I knew that the hyperbole practiced by the Times was patently false.
What I can report is that (prior to the quarantine) people shopping in stores are generally polite to each other, exchanging small talk; in my gym I see black and white men, most of them middle aged or older, seeking out each other to talk. I think Martin Luther King won his war, at least in these parts.
Shortly after we moved here we were served in a restaurant by a young black man who turned out to hail from Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan. Eventually I asked him of his experience Down Here; his compliant was that people wouldn’t quit talking to him! “Buying a tank of gas becomes a ten minute conversation.”
I am pretty sure that last bit isn’t a race thing: it’s a North/South or Big City/Small Town thing. I’ve experienced the same thing comparing, say, Vienna to Munich, or Chicago to Houston.
Which is one reason why I really, really hope that this quarantine/working from home thing has jump-started the depopulation of cities.
Considering that more and more blacks graduating from college want….and receive…separate graduation ceremonies, there is a lot of irony here. Steve is correct about this being an extension of the 1619 project warping of history…too bad these little know-nothings which the NYT now hires were not around to watch the former Soviet Union changing their history on the fly…I remember it…and we here laughed…that it would never happen here in the land of the free and the brave. The universities have done well with producing non-thinkers because, quite frankly, if they were actual thinkers, they would not be so easily lead and duped…but, if is a whole lot easier to have a room full of students who do not challenge what is said by the “teacher”….
Another instance where Black Americans are being used for Political purposes by the Democrats.