Army to rename bases named after Confederate Generals

[cnm]

Sam Clemens also served in the Confederate Army. Should we burn all of his books also

Keep the more autobiographical ones. The rest are not much loss.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

We should fix that.

How? Most people do nor realize that bodies buried without a metal coffin of any type will literally dissolve into the earth, skeleton and all in about 20 years.

There is a great scene in the TV series "Justified" where Raylan decides to have his mother's body exhumed and moved from the property he is selling. She was buried in a pine box when he was a boy. The guy he hired to dig her up had to tell him that there was nothing to move but dirt.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Burn Virginia?

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[Mushroom]

Austin was not an Army general before he became SECDEF?

Actually, no. He retired back in 2016. Before he took the position, He then went to work for Raytheon, and was on the board of directors of several corporations (including Tenet Healthcare). In fact, it requires a special hearing in Congress for any to assume such a position less than seven years after leaving active duty.

And what a SecDef did before does not matter, that is a civilian political position. And as most are in their 60s already, few even want to do that once they retire.

And "get current"? I just retired last year. As I said, most of that is from the civilian side. Not the military side.

 

[Mushroom]

Keep the more autobiographical ones. The rest are not much loss.

OK, Adolph.

Even more interesting, as those are the ones that talk about his service in the Confederate military.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Actually, no. He retired back in 2016. Before he took the position, He then went to work for Raytheon, and was on the board of directors of several corporations (including Tenet Healthcare). In fact, it requires a special hearing in Congress for any to assume such a position less than seven years after leaving active duty.

And what a SecDef did before does not matter, that is a civilian political position. And as most are in their 60s already, few even want to do that once they retire.

And "get current"? I just retired last year. As I said, most of that is from the civilian side. Not the military side.

Yes, get current!

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

There were lots of Confederates buried in Arlington.

And that’s unfortunate.

The men and women who served to defend America shouldn’t be interred with treasonous war criminals who fought to destroy it.

 

[Mushroom]

The men and women who served to defend America shouldn’t be interred with treasonous war criminals who fought to destroy it.

And after the war was over they had to renounce their former ties to the Confederacy, and swear a new oath to the US. And they were all pardoned.

And a great many continued to serve in the US Army, And eight former Confederate Generals also went on to serve and rise to General in the US Army. They are Joe Wheeler, Fitz Lee, Thomas Rosser, Matthew Butler, Henry T Douglas, John B Castleman, William C Oates, and William W Gordon. Another even rejoined the Army during WWI.

And two former Confederates became Secretary of the Navy.

Thousands would go on to serve in the US Army and Navy after the war was over, most having distinguished careers.

Why is it that some believe in persecuting people forever, even those who would serve honorably afterwards? Because those Confederates in Arlington are ones who did serve honorably afterwards in the US Army.

 

[Mushroom]

And you also have those who served who were known as "Galvanized Yankees".

Those were almost 7,000 who were POWs, yet joined the Union Army in "Volunteer Regiments" and fought for the rest of the war as Union Soldiers. However, as part of their oath they did not fight in the main theater. Instead they served in garrison duty in the North, or in the Western Frontier like in Colorado or Utah.