An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
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Obama to Visit Arlington for Memorial Day
President Barack Obama sought to dodge racial controversy on Memorial Day, sending wreaths to a monument for Confederate soldiers and other flowers to a memorial honoring more than 200,000 African-Americans who fought for the Union during the Civil War.
Obama, the nation’s first black president, planned to continue tradition and have aides leave a wreath at the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, the 600-acre site that once was Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s estate. But the White House also will send a wreath to the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington’s historically black U Street neighborhood.
Presidents traditionally visit Arlington to personally leave a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns, a marble structure housing the remains of unidentified U.S. military members who died during war. Presidents then have aides deliver wreaths to other memorials or monuments, generally including the Confederate memorial.
On Memorial Day, I always believed it was our duty, and honor, to remember ALL soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country? No matter what era in which they fought. So, when I read this:
But a group of about 60 professors last week sent a petition to the White House asking Obama to avoid a memorial for Confederate military members who died during the war between the North and the South.
“The Arlington Confederate Monument is a denial of the wrong committed against African-Americans by slave owners, Confederates and neo-Confederates, through the monument’s denial of slavery as the cause of secession and its holding up of Confederates as heroes,” the petition said. “This implies that the humanity of Africans and African-Americans is of no significance.”
While I find slavery of any sort abhorrent, I also know that the Confederate soldiers didn’t die in a war fought to keep slavery. The majority of the Southern soldiers didn’t own slaves. What they were fighting for was the right for states to decide their own fate, as described in the 10th Amendment, and the ever encroaching federal government.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
I am more than just a little offended that this piece of crap, and his cronies, would dare to dishonor ANY soldier, from any age in our history! His very existence, living in freedom, warping young minds, is an affront to everything that our brave men and women fought and died for.
“This is not only a time for celebration, it is also a time to reflect on what this holiday is all about; to pay tribute to our fallen heroes; and to remember the servicemen and women who cannot be with us this year because they are standing post far from home — in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world,” Obama said during his weekly radio and Internet address ahead of the holiday.
This also includes those who gave their lives in the bloodiest war fought on our nation’s soil, the very un-Civil War. How DARE he drag his sorry ass out from under his slime and blood covered rock with the sole intent to dishonor them!
