Hegseth defends returning Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery

[Correll]

Again you try to gaslight us into believing confederate memorials were there only to honor the dead.

Those memorials honor the Confederacy
They honor Jeff Davis, Lee, Jackson and other leaders
US Army forts honor Confederate Generals not Union Generals
The South has state holidays for Jeff Davis and Lees Birthday
They still proudly fly the Rebel Flag

That is not honoring the dead

Yes, there is more to the South and the south's relationship with the legacy of the civil war, than just honoring the service of the veterans.

And all of that was assimiliated into the larger identity of AMERICAN PATRIOTISM, generations ago.


really the nail in the coffin of that...division, was WWII, where we all fought as one.


Historically, the civil war, the South as a hostile region, or the Yankees working to keep anyone down, that seems to be ended sometime during wwi.


And probably pretty early in it too.


Did you see the movie The Outlaw Jossy Wales?

 

[Delldude]

Again you try to gaslight us into believing confederate memorials were there only to honor the dead.

Those memorials honor the Confederacy
They honor Jeff Davis, Lee, Jackson and other leaders
US Army forts honor Confederate Generals not Union Generals
The South has state holidays for Jeff Davis and Lees Birthday
They still proudly fly the Rebel Flag

That is not honoring the dead

Something like 150 Confederate veterans were in the Senate sometime after the war.

 

[Correll]

Something like 150 Confederate veterans were in the Senate sometime after the war.

That's very interesting. Got any details on their service, or how NO ONE SAID BOO ABOUT IT, because they were NOT ******* assholes?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Something like 150 Confederate veterans were in the Senate sometime after the war.

The Civil War, as ugly as it was, was going to happen at some point. Part of growing pains of a nation. It's history and valuable history erasing it shouldn't happen

 

[rightwinger]

Something like 150 Confederate veterans were in the Senate sometime after the war.

There were only 36 states making a total of 72 Senators

 

[SassyIrishLass]

There were only 36 states making a total of 72 Senators

It's factual. Look it up

U.S. Senate: Civil War Veterans in the Senate

Civil War Veterans in the Senate

www.senate.gov

 

[Nostra]

There were only 36 states making a total of 72 Senators

He never said they served t the same time, Dipshit.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

He never said they served t the same time, Dipshit.

He's kinda slow

 

[rightwinger]

It's factual. Look it up

U.S. Senate: Civil War Veterans in the Senate

Civil War Veterans in the Senate

www.senate.gov

Learn how to read Sweetie…..

In the years following the Civil War, more than 150 Union and Confederate veterans served as United States senators, helping to chart the nation’s course well into the 20th century.

 

[Correll]

Learn how to read Sweetie…..

In the years following the Civil War, more than 150 Union and Confederate veterans served as United States senators, helping to chart the nation’s course well into the 20th century.

More to the point, to support your claims, show that the presense of these supposed "traitors" was a huge issue for the nation and the other senators.


Which you can't.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Learn how to read Sweetie…..

In the years following the Civil War, more than 150 Union and Confederate veterans served as United States senators, helping to chart the nation’s course well into the 20th century.

That was sort of the point you blabbering dumb fck. AFTER the war

Dude, you get your ass handed to you constantly. Constantly, you're fkn dumb

 

[rightwinger]

That was sort of the point you blabbering dumb fck. AFTER the war

Dude, you get your ass handed to you constantly. Constantly, you're fkn dumb

Unlike you
I paid attention in school learning both history and math

That is how I was able to quickly determine that 150 confederate veteran Senators was BS

You still are clueless

 

[Delldude]

There were only 36 states making a total of 72 Senators

were in the Senate sometime after the war.

 

[Clipper]

Putting monuments to the enemies of the nation in the national cemetery.

What's next? Statues of hitler?

Give 'em time. They're working on it.

 

[Clipper]

***** shit…let’s stop ******* around and reinstall ALL Robert E. Lee statues

To make Ricky Wayne, Tanner Jeb, Jimbo Lee, etc. jizz themselves at the still.

"NOW GIT"!!

 

[Delldude]

What's next? Statues of hitler?

 

[Crepitus]

Give 'em time. They're working on it.

At any other time I would think you were joking.

 

[Crepitus]

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Izzat hitler in the middle?

 

[Delldude]

Izzat hitler in the middle?

You going to frame it?

 

[Mashmont]

Hegseth defends returning Confederate monument removed by ‘woke lemmings’ to Arlington National Cemetery

The Reconciliation Monument was removed from Arlington National Cemetery in 2023.

www.al.com

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth backed up his decision to return a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery removed by “the woke lemmings” who have erased Confederate symbols from American culture.

The Reconciliation Monument, a memorial to the Confederacy, was removed from Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia in 2023.

Hegseth explained his decision to bring back the monument to Arlington during a Fox News appearance Thursday afternoon.

“Because we recognize our history, we don’t erase it. We don’t follow the woke lemmings off the cliff that want to tear down statues,” the secretary said.

Good. That's American history. Sadly the dems made it into a political/ethnic issue.

Whether you agree or disagree with the government in charge, the soldiers fought for their states.

Union or confederate they should be honored. And hopefully remembered so similar events won’t repeat themselves.

I would force leftwingers behind the removal to pay for its restoration.