Why not replace statues of traitors with statues of heroes?

[deanrd]

General Eisenhower
General Patton

What about Audie Murphy who recieved 33 awards, including the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military award for bravery that can be given, for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above the beyond the call of duty.” Among these awards he also recieved 5 decorations by France and Belgium. Murphy was promoted from private to 2nd lieutenant and fought in 9 major campaigns across Europe during the war. By the end of the war, Murphy was not even 21 years old and was a surviving legend of the war within the 3rd infantry division. He was the most decorated soldier of WWII and even stared in his own movie about his life called "To Hell and Back".

Lt. Reba Whittle was the only U.S. female soldier to be imprisoned as a POW in the European theater of war. Whittle was a flight nurse with the 813th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, and had logged over 500 hours. On a flight from England to France to pick up casualties in September of 1944, her plane went off course and was shot down over Aachen, Germany.
Whittle's status as a POW was undocumented by the U.S. military. She was awarded the Air Medal and a Purple Heart, and promoted to lieutenant, but was denied disability or POW retirement benefits. Her injuries kept her from flying, so she worked in an Army hospital in California until she left the service in 1946. Whittle applied for, and was denied, POW status and back pay for ten years. She finally accepted a cash settlement in 1955. While nurses who were imprisoned in Asia had received hero's receptions upon their release, Whittle's story was kept quiet by the Army and barely noticed by the media in the celebrations of the war's end. Whittle died of breast cancer in 1981. Her POW status was officially conferred by the military in 1983.

Citation: For extraordinary heroism in action on 5 and 6 April 1945, near Viareggio, Italy. Then Second Lieutenant Baker demonstrated outstanding courage and leadership in destroying enemy installations, personnel and equipment during his company's attack against a strongly entrenched enemy in mountainous terrain. When his company was stopped by the concentration of fire from several machine gun emplacements, he crawled to one position and destroyed it, killing three Germans. Continuing forward, he attacked an enemy observation post and killed two occupants. With the aid of one of his men, Lieutenant Baker attacked two more machine gun nests, killing or wounding the four enemy soldiers occupying these positions. He then covered the evacuation of the wounded personnel of his company by occupying an exposed position and drawing the enemy's fire.

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Put up statues of those who defended this country. Not Right wingers who tried to destroy it.

 

[Pop23]

General Eisenhower
General Patton

What about Audie Murphy who recieved 33 awards, including the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military award for bravery that can be given, for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above the beyond the call of duty.” Among these awards he also recieved 5 decorations by France and Belgium. Murphy was promoted from private to 2nd lieutenant and fought in 9 major campaigns across Europe during the war. By the end of the war, Murphy was not even 21 years old and was a surviving legend of the war within the 3rd infantry division. He was the most decorated soldier of WWII and even stared in his own movie about his life called "To Hell and Back".

Lt. Reba Whittle was the only U.S. female soldier to be imprisoned as a POW in the European theater of war. Whittle was a flight nurse with the 813th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, and had logged over 500 hours. On a flight from England to France to pick up casualties in September of 1944, her plane went off course and was shot down over Aachen, Germany.
Whittle's status as a POW was undocumented by the U.S. military. She was awarded the Air Medal and a Purple Heart, and promoted to lieutenant, but was denied disability or POW retirement benefits. Her injuries kept her from flying, so she worked in an Army hospital in California until she left the service in 1946. Whittle applied for, and was denied, POW status and back pay for ten years. She finally accepted a cash settlement in 1955. While nurses who were imprisoned in Asia had received hero's receptions upon their release, Whittle's story was kept quiet by the Army and barely noticed by the media in the celebrations of the war's end. Whittle died of breast cancer in 1981. Her POW status was officially conferred by the military in 1983.

Citation: For extraordinary heroism in action on 5 and 6 April 1945, near Viareggio, Italy. Then Second Lieutenant Baker demonstrated outstanding courage and leadership in destroying enemy installations, personnel and equipment during his company's attack against a strongly entrenched enemy in mountainous terrain. When his company was stopped by the concentration of fire from several machine gun emplacements, he crawled to one position and destroyed it, killing three Germans. Continuing forward, he attacked an enemy observation post and killed two occupants. With the aid of one of his men, Lieutenant Baker attacked two more machine gun nests, killing or wounding the four enemy soldiers occupying these positions. He then covered the evacuation of the wounded personnel of his company by occupying an exposed position and drawing the enemy's fire.

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Put up statues of those who defended this country. Not Right wingers who tried to destroy it.

Get it on the ballot in those communities.

It's really simple

Get to work you lazy bitch

 

[Auld Phart]

General Eisenhower
General Patton

What about Audie Murphy who recieved 33 awards, including the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military award for bravery that can be given, for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above the beyond the call of duty.” Among these awards he also recieved 5 decorations by France and Belgium. Murphy was promoted from private to 2nd lieutenant and fought in 9 major campaigns across Europe during the war. By the end of the war, Murphy was not even 21 years old and was a surviving legend of the war within the 3rd infantry division. He was the most decorated soldier of WWII and even stared in his own movie about his life called "To Hell and Back".

Lt. Reba Whittle was the only U.S. female soldier to be imprisoned as a POW in the European theater of war. Whittle was a flight nurse with the 813th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, and had logged over 500 hours. On a flight from England to France to pick up casualties in September of 1944, her plane went off course and was shot down over Aachen, Germany.
Whittle's status as a POW was undocumented by the U.S. military. She was awarded the Air Medal and a Purple Heart, and promoted to lieutenant, but was denied disability or POW retirement benefits. Her injuries kept her from flying, so she worked in an Army hospital in California until she left the service in 1946. Whittle applied for, and was denied, POW status and back pay for ten years. She finally accepted a cash settlement in 1955. While nurses who were imprisoned in Asia had received hero's receptions upon their release, Whittle's story was kept quiet by the Army and barely noticed by the media in the celebrations of the war's end. Whittle died of breast cancer in 1981. Her POW status was officially conferred by the military in 1983.

Citation: For extraordinary heroism in action on 5 and 6 April 1945, near Viareggio, Italy. Then Second Lieutenant Baker demonstrated outstanding courage and leadership in destroying enemy installations, personnel and equipment during his company's attack against a strongly entrenched enemy in mountainous terrain. When his company was stopped by the concentration of fire from several machine gun emplacements, he crawled to one position and destroyed it, killing three Germans. Continuing forward, he attacked an enemy observation post and killed two occupants. With the aid of one of his men, Lieutenant Baker attacked two more machine gun nests, killing or wounding the four enemy soldiers occupying these positions. He then covered the evacuation of the wounded personnel of his company by occupying an exposed position and drawing the enemy's fire.

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Put up statues of those who defended this country. Not Right wingers who tried to destroy it.

The ones they are removing are/were Democrats.

YOu should be happy the history of your party is being erased

IN another generation or two, your ilk can claim that the right wingers were the one that owned slaves, and there will be little to no proof otherwise.

 

[whitehall]

Who gets to judge? By Race or gender? Twenty Seven (white) Marines and Navy were awarded the MOH on Iwo Jima. Should they all get statues? Douglas MacArthur abandoned his entire Army at Corrigador but there is a gigantic monument to him. Let it go lefties, you don't hold a winning hand.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Robert E Lee on Confederate monuments.

"Lee did not want such divisive symbols following him to the grave," Horn wrote. "At his funeral in 1870, flags were notably absent from the procession. Former Confederate soldiers marching did not don their old military uniforms, and neither did the body they buried.

According to Horn, Lee's daughter wrote, "His Confederate uniform would have been 'treason' perhaps!"

"Lee believed countries that erased visible signs of civil war recovered from conflicts quicker," Horn told PBS. "He was worried that by keeping these symbols alive, it would keep the divisions alive."

Jesus you dopey cons, Lee himself wanted all evidence of the Civil War and the Confederacy erased because those things would keep the divisions alive.

TADA!!

 

[MarathonMike]

General Eisenhower
General Patton

What about Audie Murphy who recieved 33 awards, including the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military award for bravery that can be given, for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above the beyond the call of duty.” Among these awards he also recieved 5 decorations by France and Belgium. Murphy was promoted from private to 2nd lieutenant and fought in 9 major campaigns across Europe during the war. By the end of the war, Murphy was not even 21 years old and was a surviving legend of the war within the 3rd infantry division. He was the most decorated soldier of WWII and even stared in his own movie about his life called "To Hell and Back".

Lt. Reba Whittle was the only U.S. female soldier to be imprisoned as a POW in the European theater of war. Whittle was a flight nurse with the 813th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, and had logged over 500 hours. On a flight from England to France to pick up casualties in September of 1944, her plane went off course and was shot down over Aachen, Germany.
Whittle's status as a POW was undocumented by the U.S. military. She was awarded the Air Medal and a Purple Heart, and promoted to lieutenant, but was denied disability or POW retirement benefits. Her injuries kept her from flying, so she worked in an Army hospital in California until she left the service in 1946. Whittle applied for, and was denied, POW status and back pay for ten years. She finally accepted a cash settlement in 1955. While nurses who were imprisoned in Asia had received hero's receptions upon their release, Whittle's story was kept quiet by the Army and barely noticed by the media in the celebrations of the war's end. Whittle died of breast cancer in 1981. Her POW status was officially conferred by the military in 1983.

Citation: For extraordinary heroism in action on 5 and 6 April 1945, near Viareggio, Italy. Then Second Lieutenant Baker demonstrated outstanding courage and leadership in destroying enemy installations, personnel and equipment during his company's attack against a strongly entrenched enemy in mountainous terrain. When his company was stopped by the concentration of fire from several machine gun emplacements, he crawled to one position and destroyed it, killing three Germans. Continuing forward, he attacked an enemy observation post and killed two occupants. With the aid of one of his men, Lieutenant Baker attacked two more machine gun nests, killing or wounding the four enemy soldiers occupying these positions. He then covered the evacuation of the wounded personnel of his company by occupying an exposed position and drawing the enemy's fire.

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Put up statues of those who defended this country. Not Right wingers who tried to destroy it.

Um you better hold onto something. You good? Ok those Confederate statues of "Right wingers" ? You have a good grip, right? They were all Democrats.

 

[deanrd]

You guys make yourselves look totally tarded with the Democrats thing. And it's so easy to knock the sh!t out of your argument and make you look like fools.

Just like Trump. What about Washington? One of the founders of the country? He owned slaves. That's the right wing argument. Only Lee and the other Confederates tried to destroy the country. So in the GOP's tiny mind, they must be the same.

But the way you can really make these right wing fools run off babbling is when you ask them how come the Deep South is majority Republican today, and back then, it was the North that were majority Republicans. They don't have an answer. Mass migration perhaps? And why would all these Northern Republicans move into a war torn land? The Deep South.

We know the Confederate are Republicans. Was Lincoln a "confederate"?

 

[TheDude]

General Eisenhower
General Patton

What about Audie Murphy who recieved 33 awards, including the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military award for bravery that can be given, for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above the beyond the call of duty.” Among these awards he also recieved 5 decorations by France and Belgium. Murphy was promoted from private to 2nd lieutenant and fought in 9 major campaigns across Europe during the war. By the end of the war, Murphy was not even 21 years old and was a surviving legend of the war within the 3rd infantry division. He was the most decorated soldier of WWII and even stared in his own movie about his life called "To Hell and Back".

Lt. Reba Whittle was the only U.S. female soldier to be imprisoned as a POW in the European theater of war. Whittle was a flight nurse with the 813th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, and had logged over 500 hours. On a flight from England to France to pick up casualties in September of 1944, her plane went off course and was shot down over Aachen, Germany.
Whittle's status as a POW was undocumented by the U.S. military. She was awarded the Air Medal and a Purple Heart, and promoted to lieutenant, but was denied disability or POW retirement benefits. Her injuries kept her from flying, so she worked in an Army hospital in California until she left the service in 1946. Whittle applied for, and was denied, POW status and back pay for ten years. She finally accepted a cash settlement in 1955. While nurses who were imprisoned in Asia had received hero's receptions upon their release, Whittle's story was kept quiet by the Army and barely noticed by the media in the celebrations of the war's end. Whittle died of breast cancer in 1981. Her POW status was officially conferred by the military in 1983.

Citation: For extraordinary heroism in action on 5 and 6 April 1945, near Viareggio, Italy. Then Second Lieutenant Baker demonstrated outstanding courage and leadership in destroying enemy installations, personnel and equipment during his company's attack against a strongly entrenched enemy in mountainous terrain. When his company was stopped by the concentration of fire from several machine gun emplacements, he crawled to one position and destroyed it, killing three Germans. Continuing forward, he attacked an enemy observation post and killed two occupants. With the aid of one of his men, Lieutenant Baker attacked two more machine gun nests, killing or wounding the four enemy soldiers occupying these positions. He then covered the evacuation of the wounded personnel of his company by occupying an exposed position and drawing the enemy's fire.

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Put up statues of those who defended this country. Not Right wingers who tried to destroy it.

I have a better idea. Leave what we have and build new.

 

[Muhammed]

I don't see it written anywhere in the US constitution that individual States may not leave the union.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

General Eisenhower
General Patton

What about Audie Murphy who recieved 33 awards, including the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military award for bravery that can be given, for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above the beyond the call of duty.” Among these awards he also recieved 5 decorations by France and Belgium. Murphy was promoted from private to 2nd lieutenant and fought in 9 major campaigns across Europe during the war. By the end of the war, Murphy was not even 21 years old and was a surviving legend of the war within the 3rd infantry division. He was the most decorated soldier of WWII and even stared in his own movie about his life called "To Hell and Back".

Lt. Reba Whittle was the only U.S. female soldier to be imprisoned as a POW in the European theater of war. Whittle was a flight nurse with the 813th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, and had logged over 500 hours. On a flight from England to France to pick up casualties in September of 1944, her plane went off course and was shot down over Aachen, Germany.
Whittle's status as a POW was undocumented by the U.S. military. She was awarded the Air Medal and a Purple Heart, and promoted to lieutenant, but was denied disability or POW retirement benefits. Her injuries kept her from flying, so she worked in an Army hospital in California until she left the service in 1946. Whittle applied for, and was denied, POW status and back pay for ten years. She finally accepted a cash settlement in 1955. While nurses who were imprisoned in Asia had received hero's receptions upon their release, Whittle's story was kept quiet by the Army and barely noticed by the media in the celebrations of the war's end. Whittle died of breast cancer in 1981. Her POW status was officially conferred by the military in 1983.

Citation: For extraordinary heroism in action on 5 and 6 April 1945, near Viareggio, Italy. Then Second Lieutenant Baker demonstrated outstanding courage and leadership in destroying enemy installations, personnel and equipment during his company's attack against a strongly entrenched enemy in mountainous terrain. When his company was stopped by the concentration of fire from several machine gun emplacements, he crawled to one position and destroyed it, killing three Germans. Continuing forward, he attacked an enemy observation post and killed two occupants. With the aid of one of his men, Lieutenant Baker attacked two more machine gun nests, killing or wounding the four enemy soldiers occupying these positions. He then covered the evacuation of the wounded personnel of his company by occupying an exposed position and drawing the enemy's fire.

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Put up statues of those who defended this country. Not Right wingers who tried to destroy it.

This guy is from my neck of the woods. And, yes, we do have monuments and memorials honoring him.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

General Eisenhower
General Patton

What about Audie Murphy who recieved 33 awards, including the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military award for bravery that can be given, for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above the beyond the call of duty.” Among these awards he also recieved 5 decorations by France and Belgium. Murphy was promoted from private to 2nd lieutenant and fought in 9 major campaigns across Europe during the war. By the end of the war, Murphy was not even 21 years old and was a surviving legend of the war within the 3rd infantry division. He was the most decorated soldier of WWII and even stared in his own movie about his life called "To Hell and Back".

Lt. Reba Whittle was the only U.S. female soldier to be imprisoned as a POW in the European theater of war. Whittle was a flight nurse with the 813th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, and had logged over 500 hours. On a flight from England to France to pick up casualties in September of 1944, her plane went off course and was shot down over Aachen, Germany.
Whittle's status as a POW was undocumented by the U.S. military. She was awarded the Air Medal and a Purple Heart, and promoted to lieutenant, but was denied disability or POW retirement benefits. Her injuries kept her from flying, so she worked in an Army hospital in California until she left the service in 1946. Whittle applied for, and was denied, POW status and back pay for ten years. She finally accepted a cash settlement in 1955. While nurses who were imprisoned in Asia had received hero's receptions upon their release, Whittle's story was kept quiet by the Army and barely noticed by the media in the celebrations of the war's end. Whittle died of breast cancer in 1981. Her POW status was officially conferred by the military in 1983.

Citation: For extraordinary heroism in action on 5 and 6 April 1945, near Viareggio, Italy. Then Second Lieutenant Baker demonstrated outstanding courage and leadership in destroying enemy installations, personnel and equipment during his company's attack against a strongly entrenched enemy in mountainous terrain. When his company was stopped by the concentration of fire from several machine gun emplacements, he crawled to one position and destroyed it, killing three Germans. Continuing forward, he attacked an enemy observation post and killed two occupants. With the aid of one of his men, Lieutenant Baker attacked two more machine gun nests, killing or wounding the four enemy soldiers occupying these positions. He then covered the evacuation of the wounded personnel of his company by occupying an exposed position and drawing the enemy's fire.

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Put up statues of those who defended this country. Not Right wingers who tried to destroy it.

The ones they are removing are/were Democrats.

YOu should be happy the history of your party is being erased

IN another generation or two, your ilk can claim that the right wingers were the one that owned slaves, and there will be little to no proof otherwise.

Scary part is the OP'er most likely believe Lincoln was a Democrat and Lee was a Republican...

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

You guys make yourselves look totally tarded with the Democrats thing. And it's so easy to knock the sh!t out of your argument and make you look like fools.

Just like Trump. What about Washington? One of the founders of the country? He owned slaves. That's the right wing argument. Only Lee and the other Confederates tried to destroy the country. So in the GOP's tiny mind, they must be the same.

But the way you can really make these right wing fools run off babbling is when you ask them how come the Deep South is majority Republican today, and back then, it was the North that were majority Republicans. They don't have an answer. Mass migration perhaps? And why would all these Northern Republicans move into a war torn land? The Deep South.

We know the Confederate are Republicans. Was Lincoln a "confederate"?

Sorry but Lincoln was Republican no matter how much you hate the fact. The Democratic was based on racism in that era and let be honest it was not until maybe the last two generations it has changed...

Hell David Duke was once a Democrat...

 

[Markle]

Put up statues of those who defended this country. Not Right wingers who tried to destroy it.

Foolish statement. As you know, it was Democrats who fought against desegregation.

From the Southern State of Texas!

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Scary part is the OP'er most likely believe Lincoln was a Democrat and Lee was a Republican...

Even scarier---they don't know that Lincoln was ALSO racist:

"Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man."

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

From the Southern State of Texas!

That statue is over in Greenville. Love me some Audie Murphy.

 

[Markle]

Slavery was common all around the world at the time of our founding. Had been common for thousands of years. My ancestors were either slaves or slave owners, I'm not sure.

The United States led the way in doing away with slavery. Why you want to denigrate former leaders of our Southern States is shameful to me. Those were different times and what they did was perfectly legal and accepted all around the world. Slavery is common today, why not fight that instead of your countrymen?

 

[Yarddog]

You guys make yourselves look totally tarded with the Democrats thing. And it's so easy to knock the sh!t out of your argument and make you look like fools.

Just like Trump. What about Washington? One of the founders of the country? He owned slaves. That's the right wing argument. Only Lee and the other Confederates tried to destroy the country. So in the GOP's tiny mind, they must be the same.

But the way you can really make these right wing fools run off babbling is when you ask them how come the Deep South is majority Republican today, and back then, it was the North that were majority Republicans. They don't have an answer. Mass migration perhaps? And why would all these Northern Republicans move into a war torn land? The Deep South.

We know the Confederate are Republicans. Was Lincoln a "confederate"?

But Ive seen black poster here on this site say that Washington offered them nothing, the declaration of independence offered them as black people nothing, the national anthem is racist, etc. Confederate statues are the easiest and first targets to go in the process of rebuilding America into the image progressives would like to see. They might allow some George Washington statues to remain if they can be redone with him down on his knees begging for forgiveness. basically the Democratic party is becoming the party of " just tear it all down man"
You really think progressives and marxists will stop at Confederate statues? its not even about the statues its about instilling a feeling of guilt and division in America and really just a continuation of an indirect attack against the Trump administration, with the news media at the forefront.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Erasing history is akin to Nazi book-burning.

That's what's really happening.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

Patton wouldn't have pissed on a modern Liberal if they where on fire.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Patton wouldn't have pissed on a modern Liberal if they where on fire.

Neither would Eisenhower or Pershing.

OFC "Modern Liberal" is not a liberal at all, it's a Communist, America-hating piece of shit.