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Showing posts with label Confederate Flag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Confederate Flag. Show all posts
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Danville 29 Bypass Cabell Memorial Battle Flag Documentary/Update
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Call Your Congress Men Today!!!
Compatriots,
Today the U.S. House of Representatives will be voting on whether to permanently ban the Confederate Flag from all Federal cemeteries regardless if Confederate soldiers, sailors, marines or civilian are buried there or not.
I urgently request that you contact a US Representative today and tell them to vote no and ask for a written reply back. Please use the links below to help with the phone numbers of your members of both the Senate and House.
House of Representatives
U. S. Senate
Friends, time is of the essence, so act now.
Charles Kelly Barrow
Commander-in-Chief
Sons of Confederate Veterans
@scvcic
www.scv.org
Today the U.S. House of Representatives will be voting on whether to permanently ban the Confederate Flag from all Federal cemeteries regardless if Confederate soldiers, sailors, marines or civilian are buried there or not.
I urgently request that you contact a US Representative today and tell them to vote no and ask for a written reply back. Please use the links below to help with the phone numbers of your members of both the Senate and House.
House of Representatives
U. S. Senate
Friends, time is of the essence, so act now.
Sincerely,
Commander-in-Chief
Sons of Confederate Veterans
@scvcic
www.scv.org
Monday, October 20, 2014
1st White House of the Confederacy, Montgomery, Alabama.
On March 4, 1861, President John Tyler's granddaughter, Miss Letitia Tyler, raised the first flag of the Confederacy, the Stars and Bars, on the Capitol grounds. Today, a First National proudly flies on the grounds of the home and museum which is located directly across from the State Capitol building. The museum is a wonderful tribute to President Davis and his family, and a real treasure and asset to Montgomery's heritage and tourism.
Meanwhile, back in Virginia, at the LAST Capital of the Confederacy (BELOW), a Third National flag proudly flies on the lawn, marking the Sutherlin Mansion as the last residence of Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States of America.
"The Anne Eliza Johns Chapter 164, UDC was instrumental in saving "the last Capital of the Confederacy", the old Sutherlin Mansion, home of Major William T. Sutherlin in Danville. President Jefferson Davis stayed there April 3-10, 1865 when he and his cabinet evacuated Richmond. The last full cabinet meeting was held here and this is where Davis received news of Lee's surrender. When Mrs. Sutherlin died in 1912, the mansion was threatened with demolition. The Daughters raised $20,000, Half of the funds required, which were matched by the City of Danville. In 1912, the City deeded to the UDC two upstairs rooms in the mansion for a meeting place in appreciation of their work in saving the building. A wall was removed to make one large room which the chapter continues to use for its meetings. The room contains the marble table where Jefferson Davis wrote "The Last Proclamation". The two chandeliers in the room are original to the house. There are many antiques and collectibles in the chapter room donated by friends including portraits of the Sutherlins and Anne Eliza Johns along with items purchased by the chapter such as the iron strong box which stored the gold brought to Danville by President Davis." (http://www.aejohnsudc.com/index_files/Page400.htm)
Through their generosity, the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History was established. Fast forward 100 years, and museum Director Cara Burton has decided to repay this kindness by sending a letter to Danville City Council requesting the Third National Confederate flag be removed from the property. Instead of honoring the heritage and history of the historic property, the museum has chosen to make a request that dishonors the proud history of the Sutherlin Mansion, and disprespects the very organization to whom they owe their existence.
On October 9th, dozens of supporters of the flag attended the Danville City Council meeting to urge members to deny the request. The matter was discussed in closed session, and although comments from citizens were in support of the flag by a 4 to 1 margin, council members chose NOT to end the matter quickly, as they should have, by simply denying the request. Reportedly, more "research" will be done, and the matter will be discussed and action decided in another closed session meeting on October 21st, followed immediately by an open City Council meeting.
The Mayor and each member of City Council announced that they wanted to hear what the citizens have to say on this matter. Have you let YOUR voice be heard? Your ancestors can no longer speak. If you do not raise your voice in their defense, who will?
Please take time over the next 9 days to write, call, and email the Mayor, City Council members, and the City Manager's office. Be polite, but firm...and encourage them to honor the history and heritage of Danville and her people by denying the absurd request by the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History. Ask them to honor the 1994 resolution and abide by Virginia State Law, which prohibits the removal of the memorial flag.
A City Council staff directory, with contact information can be found here: http://www.danville-va.gov/Directory.aspx?did=26
City Manager's Office directory here... http://www.danville-va.gov/Directory.aspx?did=7
ACT NOW...forward this information to help reach as many as possible... and make plans to attend the meeting on October 21st.
Friday, July 11, 2014
W&L Lee Chapel flag removal update:
We have received copies of dozens of emails, and had reports of hundreds of phone calls that were made today. We cannot emphasize enough how much each phone call and email helps to keep the pressure on as we continue to work on this issue from several angles, and develop detailed plans for protests and further action.
One of the main issues that President Ruscio and others use as a defense for the removal is the agreement between the UDC, The Museum formerly known as the Museum of the Confederacy, and the University. We have been able to secure a copy of this agreement, and while it does call for the removal of the original battle flags for restoration, and for the flags to be properly displayed in glass cases in the museum in the basement of the Chapel, it in NO WAY dictates that the reproduction flags, provided by the SCV as a replacement for the originals, must be removed from the Chapel. The referenced agreement was made in 1997, and yet they expect us to believe that it just so happens that they decided to take the reproduction flags out of the Chapel in July of 2014, as part of a new agreement with the Museum formerly known as the Museum of the Confederacy, not to appease "The Committee". Do not be fooled by this smokescreen.
FYI: W&L has a FaceBook page.
They do not allow photos or posts from others, but you can comment on their
photos and posts, here... https://www.facebook.com/washingtonandlee
Grayson Jennings
Va Flaggers
Mr. Kenneth Ruscio,
President
Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee University
Mr. Daniel Wubah,
Provost
Washington and Lee University
Mr. James D. Farrar, Jr., Secretary of the University
Washington & Lee University
Ms. Katherine Brinkley, Executive Assistant to the Board of Trustees
Washington & Lee University
Re: Restriction and Removal of Southern Confederacy Related Items, Action and Speech
Dear Sirs and Madam:
The purpose of this letter is to express my concern regarding action(s) announced by President Ruscio relative to the Army of Northern Virginia regimental flag replicas surrounding the Edward Valentine sculpture, "The Recumbent Lee", the Lee-Jackson Day parade entering onto the Washington & Lee campus and the censorship of presentations made by private groups in Lee Chapel.
Straying a bit from the heart of the matter at hand, I would point out two things that I would have thought would have been obvious. First, because of the location in Lexington of Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s home, his burial place and the presence of the Virginia Military Institute where Jackson taught and which produced many renowned Confederate leaders, coupled with the fact that the final resting place of Gen. Robert E. Lee is on the campus of Washington and Lee University that many credit Lee with saving from extinction because of his efforts there, people throughout the South, the nation and the world hold the City of Lexington as an almost iconic place and travel great distances to visit.
With that thought in mind, I would submit that while the physical location of the flags and the others symbols of the Confederacy may be situate on the Washington & Lee campus, in a larger sense they belong to the people of this country, particularly those of us who happen to be Southern and especially we Virginians.
I know that "The Committee" claims, that the flags symbolize slavery and because of that they find them “offensive”. I would submit to you that a thorough review of Confederate history will demonstrate conclusively that the issues were, and are, far more complex than that simplistic viewpoint and that these people are “offended” primarily because they choose to be. In fact, one of them, at least, was in his third year of law school before the "offense" became intolerable. Contrary to current "progressive" thought, no one has an unalienable right not to be offended. To paraphrase a comment from another who opined on the matter, for a student holding sentiments such as those of "The Committee" to apply to and attend a university named Washington and Lee is akin to someone enlisting in the Navy when they know they are prone to seasickness.
I included this observation in an earlier letter, but I think it bears repeating. The targeted flags are regimental battle flags representing some of the regiments that Lee commanded in the Army of Northern Virginia. They are soldiers' flags, not, as many would have you believe, symbolic of anything other than the brotherhood of valor that comprised that gallant body of men, Lee's "boys". Those flags are there representing the devotion and respect of those veterans for their old commander, "Marse Robert".
President Ruscio's statement that, " “The purpose of historic flags in a university setting is to educate. They are not to be displayed for decoration, which would diminish their significance, or for glorification, or to make a statement about past conflicts . The reproductions are not genuinely historic, nor are they displayed with any information or background about what they are. The absence of such explanation allows those who either ‘oppose’ or ‘support’ them to assert their own subjective and frequently incorrect interpretations.”, is disingenuous at best and a bald-faced distortion of the true history of how the flags came to be there in the first place, and why. They were not placed there to be "in a university setting" at all. They were placed there to honor the man who led those regiments and the fact that the current flags are reproductions and have no information or background regarding them is moot . . . neither did the originals and the reason there are reproductions there at all is because the originals were deteriorating. The entire statement is pure spin, and amateurishly done at that.
Finally we get to the "marching" and the addresses in the Chapel. The only "marching" that transpires is a single event on a single day out of an entire calendar year and is by people who gather in Lexington for the Lee-Jackson Day parade and memorial service in Lee Chapel. This is done solely to honor the memory and service of two great Virginians, not to espouse or advance any agenda. Whether "The Committee" likes it or not, Lee Chapel is an icon, a beacon that draws people from all walks of life and from all parts of the country for this one hour service, once a year. To deny them this privilege for the sake of the demands of .4 of 1% of the total enrollment of the institution is outrageous.
The final restriction on what may or may not be said during lectures or presentations in Lee Chapel is pure, unadulterated censorship, completely out-of-place in a venue where freedom of thought and expression should be encouraged and defended.
This entire exercise in nothing but a thinly veiled effort by the university administration to kowtow to the racially charged demands of a vocal minority and relegate salient portions of the true history of the university to the dustbin of history. It is unfair, unwarranted, based largely on fallacy and is, above all, cowardly.
Very truly yours,
W. A. Dennison, Jr.
Washington and Lee University
Mr. James D. Farrar, Jr., Secretary of the University
Washington & Lee University
Ms. Katherine Brinkley, Executive Assistant to the Board of Trustees
Washington & Lee University
Re: Restriction and Removal of Southern Confederacy Related Items, Action and Speech
Dear Sirs and Madam:
The purpose of this letter is to express my concern regarding action(s) announced by President Ruscio relative to the Army of Northern Virginia regimental flag replicas surrounding the Edward Valentine sculpture, "The Recumbent Lee", the Lee-Jackson Day parade entering onto the Washington & Lee campus and the censorship of presentations made by private groups in Lee Chapel.
Straying a bit from the heart of the matter at hand, I would point out two things that I would have thought would have been obvious. First, because of the location in Lexington of Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s home, his burial place and the presence of the Virginia Military Institute where Jackson taught and which produced many renowned Confederate leaders, coupled with the fact that the final resting place of Gen. Robert E. Lee is on the campus of Washington and Lee University that many credit Lee with saving from extinction because of his efforts there, people throughout the South, the nation and the world hold the City of Lexington as an almost iconic place and travel great distances to visit.
With that thought in mind, I would submit that while the physical location of the flags and the others symbols of the Confederacy may be situate on the Washington & Lee campus, in a larger sense they belong to the people of this country, particularly those of us who happen to be Southern and especially we Virginians.
I know that "The Committee" claims, that the flags symbolize slavery and because of that they find them “offensive”. I would submit to you that a thorough review of Confederate history will demonstrate conclusively that the issues were, and are, far more complex than that simplistic viewpoint and that these people are “offended” primarily because they choose to be. In fact, one of them, at least, was in his third year of law school before the "offense" became intolerable. Contrary to current "progressive" thought, no one has an unalienable right not to be offended. To paraphrase a comment from another who opined on the matter, for a student holding sentiments such as those of "The Committee" to apply to and attend a university named Washington and Lee is akin to someone enlisting in the Navy when they know they are prone to seasickness.
I included this observation in an earlier letter, but I think it bears repeating. The targeted flags are regimental battle flags representing some of the regiments that Lee commanded in the Army of Northern Virginia. They are soldiers' flags, not, as many would have you believe, symbolic of anything other than the brotherhood of valor that comprised that gallant body of men, Lee's "boys". Those flags are there representing the devotion and respect of those veterans for their old commander, "Marse Robert".
President Ruscio's statement that, " “The purpose of historic flags in a university setting is to educate. They are not to be displayed for decoration, which would diminish their significance, or for glorification, or to make a statement about past conflicts . The reproductions are not genuinely historic, nor are they displayed with any information or background about what they are. The absence of such explanation allows those who either ‘oppose’ or ‘support’ them to assert their own subjective and frequently incorrect interpretations.”, is disingenuous at best and a bald-faced distortion of the true history of how the flags came to be there in the first place, and why. They were not placed there to be "in a university setting" at all. They were placed there to honor the man who led those regiments and the fact that the current flags are reproductions and have no information or background regarding them is moot . . . neither did the originals and the reason there are reproductions there at all is because the originals were deteriorating. The entire statement is pure spin, and amateurishly done at that.
Finally we get to the "marching" and the addresses in the Chapel. The only "marching" that transpires is a single event on a single day out of an entire calendar year and is by people who gather in Lexington for the Lee-Jackson Day parade and memorial service in Lee Chapel. This is done solely to honor the memory and service of two great Virginians, not to espouse or advance any agenda. Whether "The Committee" likes it or not, Lee Chapel is an icon, a beacon that draws people from all walks of life and from all parts of the country for this one hour service, once a year. To deny them this privilege for the sake of the demands of .4 of 1% of the total enrollment of the institution is outrageous.
The final restriction on what may or may not be said during lectures or presentations in Lee Chapel is pure, unadulterated censorship, completely out-of-place in a venue where freedom of thought and expression should be encouraged and defended.
This entire exercise in nothing but a thinly veiled effort by the university administration to kowtow to the racially charged demands of a vocal minority and relegate salient portions of the true history of the university to the dustbin of history. It is unfair, unwarranted, based largely on fallacy and is, above all, cowardly.
Very truly yours,
W. A. Dennison, Jr.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Help requested for Elizabethton, TN flaggers
Help requested for Elizabethton, TN flaggers
Good Morning Everyone,
I have 2 areas that I want to talk about with everyone.
The first is the loss of the Confederate Memorial that was to have been placed in Elizabethton. Bill Hicks and Rick Morrell of Vaughns Brigade have for some time worked on getting a Confederate Memorial Stone, placed among the other memorials in town. They had gotten the City Council to approve placing the stone several months ago,had the memorial made and there was to be a dedication ceremony on Oct. 13th. This isn't going to happen because the Historic Zoning Commission voted it down 6-1. Mrs. Dawn Peters and others where there running there mouths as usual. They had also brought a black gentleman in to make his disdain for the monument heard. The Wautauga "Hysterical" Society are asking the Historical Zoning Comm. to add Green Hill Cemetery to there registry. If this happens the first thing to come down will be the flag and flag pole.
The second thing I want I would like to address is Flagging the Green Hill Cemetery twice next month. On October 6th and 20th, I would like to see a hundred people there with there flags. I am going to make a personal appeal to the Va. Flaggers and the Ga. Flaggers and Tennessee Flaggers to come and show support. Folks Carter Co. is about to lose it's Confederate Heritage due to an organization that is suppose to be a Historical Assc. but want to re-write a part of history and completely wipe it out. I beg each and everyone one of you not to let this happen. I know your Confederate Ancestors are just as important as mine or anyone elses. If Susan Hathaway and Billy Bearden would, please appeal to your flaggers and see if they can help us out next month. I know this is a lot to ask, because of travel and so forth, but if this isn't done and the WGA gets there way all is lost in Carter Co.
I hate to reach out like this, so I hope you'll understand. If you have any questions, please let Bill Hicks or myself know.
Tennessee Flagging Coordinator:
Col Mike Shaffer (Doc)
Bristol, Tenn. 37620
http://www.facebook.com/bigmikeshff
bigmikeshff@yahoo.com
Good Morning Everyone,
I have 2 areas that I want to talk about with everyone.
The first is the loss of the Confederate Memorial that was to have been placed in Elizabethton. Bill Hicks and Rick Morrell of Vaughns Brigade have for some time worked on getting a Confederate Memorial Stone, placed among the other memorials in town. They had gotten the City Council to approve placing the stone several months ago,had the memorial made and there was to be a dedication ceremony on Oct. 13th. This isn't going to happen because the Historic Zoning Commission voted it down 6-1. Mrs. Dawn Peters and others where there running there mouths as usual. They had also brought a black gentleman in to make his disdain for the monument heard. The Wautauga "Hysterical" Society are asking the Historical Zoning Comm. to add Green Hill Cemetery to there registry. If this happens the first thing to come down will be the flag and flag pole.
The second thing I want I would like to address is Flagging the Green Hill Cemetery twice next month. On October 6th and 20th, I would like to see a hundred people there with there flags. I am going to make a personal appeal to the Va. Flaggers and the Ga. Flaggers and Tennessee Flaggers to come and show support. Folks Carter Co. is about to lose it's Confederate Heritage due to an organization that is suppose to be a Historical Assc. but want to re-write a part of history and completely wipe it out. I beg each and everyone one of you not to let this happen. I know your Confederate Ancestors are just as important as mine or anyone elses. If Susan Hathaway and Billy Bearden would, please appeal to your flaggers and see if they can help us out next month. I know this is a lot to ask, because of travel and so forth, but if this isn't done and the WGA gets there way all is lost in Carter Co.
I hate to reach out like this, so I hope you'll understand. If you have any questions, please let Bill Hicks or myself know.
Tennessee Flagging Coordinator:
Col Mike Shaffer (Doc)
Bristol, Tenn. 37620
http://www.facebook.com/bigmikeshff
bigmikeshff@yahoo.com
Monday, October 8, 2012
Up-date, Tennessee Confederate Flaggers
Up-date, Tennessee Confederate Flaggers
From: southernamerican@comcast.net
Tennessee Confederate Flaggers Holding the Line/10-06-12
http://tennesseeconfederateflaggers.blogspot.com/2012/10/tennessee-confederate-flaggers-holding.html
God bless all Flaggers that have what it takes to STAND!!
Love and blessings,
Brother PoP
Tennessee Confederate Flaggers Holding the Line/10-06-12
http://tennesseeconfederateflaggers.blogspot.com/2012/10/tennessee-confederate-flaggers-holding.html
God bless all Flaggers that have what it takes to STAND!!
Love and blessings,
Brother PoP
Va Flaggers Update - VMFA
Va Flaggers Update - VMFA
From: info@VAflaggers.com
September was a great month for the Va Flaggers at the VMFA. We continued our twice weekly presence on the Boulevard, and had 3 Flaggings in the final week, heading eading up to our First Anniversary Picnic. With the changing weather bringing more folks out to the sidewalk, the Va Flaggers had more opportunities then ever to educate the public... changing hearts and minds!
Saturday, September 22nd: 11 Flaggers would forward the colors on this beautiful early fall day.
When a VA Flagger strolled onto the grounds of the Chapel to take some photos and get a look at the garden and was IMMEDIATELY accosted by VMFA Security who told him that he was not allowed on Confederate Memorial Park, carrying a Confederate Flag!!
He complied with his demands to leave the property, and went back to the sidewalk to continue flagging.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - An exciting day on the Boulevard! 12 Flaggers gathered. The first shift started at noon, with Flaggers arriving early to greet the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Board of Trustees members, who were meeting at 1:00.
From the back entrance, the Flaggers were greeted enthusiastically by the Benedictine High School Senior Class as they were leaving. The Va Flaggers handed out literature and asked for their support.
The weather was pleasant, traffic was moderate, and conversations were good and plentiful.
Sadly, the Va Flaggers witnessed one of the most violent acts we have seen in our year of flagging at the VMFA. A man walked by and grabbed one of the Confederate flags which was positioned in a flag stand, tossed it into traffic, and ran off.
Flaggers were quick to retrieve it before any damage was done, but it is obvious that the folks are taking their lead from the VMFA leadership and finding sick pleasure in desecrating our flags and dishonoring our Confederate Veterans.
On Friday, September 28th, Compatriot and SCV member Jeff Whitaker traveled from Florida to particapate in the flagging activities this weekend. Joined by his vivacious mother on the Boulevard we forwarded the colors until the thunderstorms made us seek shelter at 4:30. The traffic was slow, the weather warm and the watchmen were kept busy.
At the end of August, we had a meeting with VMFA and Va State Officials, and outlined our concerns about the restrictions that have been placed on us in recent months, and the Virginia and Federal laws that are being violated. We are currently following through with these issues and will have more to share soon.
Each week, twice a week, Va Flaggers advance the colors and educate the public about what the VMFA has done. We need your help. Join us if you can! Our next flagging is THIS SATURDAY, October 6th, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. We also need EVERYONE to continue to contact the VMFA and ask them to RETURN the flags and RESTORE the honor. Please take a few minutes today to call, email, or write. EACH phone call, email, or letter is important in our efforts, and lets the VMFA know that what they have done will not be forgotten.
This week, we are asking you to contact Suzanne Hall, Chief Communications Officer at the VMFA. She can be reached by phone at (804) 204-2704, by email at suzanne.hall@vmfa.museum, or write to her at VMFA, 200 N. Boulevard, Richmond VA 23220.
RETURN the flags!
RESTORE the honor!
See you on the Boulevard!
Grayson Jennings
Va Flaggers
From: info@VAflaggers.com
September was a great month for the Va Flaggers at the VMFA. We continued our twice weekly presence on the Boulevard, and had 3 Flaggings in the final week, heading eading up to our First Anniversary Picnic. With the changing weather bringing more folks out to the sidewalk, the Va Flaggers had more opportunities then ever to educate the public... changing hearts and minds!
Saturday, September 22nd: 11 Flaggers would forward the colors on this beautiful early fall day.
When a VA Flagger strolled onto the grounds of the Chapel to take some photos and get a look at the garden and was IMMEDIATELY accosted by VMFA Security who told him that he was not allowed on Confederate Memorial Park, carrying a Confederate Flag!!
He complied with his demands to leave the property, and went back to the sidewalk to continue flagging.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - An exciting day on the Boulevard! 12 Flaggers gathered. The first shift started at noon, with Flaggers arriving early to greet the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Board of Trustees members, who were meeting at 1:00.
From the back entrance, the Flaggers were greeted enthusiastically by the Benedictine High School Senior Class as they were leaving. The Va Flaggers handed out literature and asked for their support.
The weather was pleasant, traffic was moderate, and conversations were good and plentiful.
Sadly, the Va Flaggers witnessed one of the most violent acts we have seen in our year of flagging at the VMFA. A man walked by and grabbed one of the Confederate flags which was positioned in a flag stand, tossed it into traffic, and ran off.
Flaggers were quick to retrieve it before any damage was done, but it is obvious that the folks are taking their lead from the VMFA leadership and finding sick pleasure in desecrating our flags and dishonoring our Confederate Veterans.
On Friday, September 28th, Compatriot and SCV member Jeff Whitaker traveled from Florida to particapate in the flagging activities this weekend. Joined by his vivacious mother on the Boulevard we forwarded the colors until the thunderstorms made us seek shelter at 4:30. The traffic was slow, the weather warm and the watchmen were kept busy.
At the end of August, we had a meeting with VMFA and Va State Officials, and outlined our concerns about the restrictions that have been placed on us in recent months, and the Virginia and Federal laws that are being violated. We are currently following through with these issues and will have more to share soon.
Each week, twice a week, Va Flaggers advance the colors and educate the public about what the VMFA has done. We need your help. Join us if you can! Our next flagging is THIS SATURDAY, October 6th, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. We also need EVERYONE to continue to contact the VMFA and ask them to RETURN the flags and RESTORE the honor. Please take a few minutes today to call, email, or write. EACH phone call, email, or letter is important in our efforts, and lets the VMFA know that what they have done will not be forgotten.
This week, we are asking you to contact Suzanne Hall, Chief Communications Officer at the VMFA. She can be reached by phone at (804) 204-2704, by email at suzanne.hall@vmfa.museum, or write to her at VMFA, 200 N. Boulevard, Richmond VA 23220.
RETURN the flags!
RESTORE the honor!
See you on the Boulevard!
Grayson Jennings
Va Flaggers
Va Flaggers Update: Sharpsburg
Va Flaggers Update: Sharpsburg
From: info@VAflaggers.com
On
Saturday, September 29th, the Virginia Flaggers traveled to Sharpsburg
to attend the Georgia Civil War Commission's Re-Dedication of the
Monument to Georgia's Confederate Dead.
We
arrived early in the morning, as it was the first visit to Sharpsburg
for all of us. We started with a tour of the visitor's center and then
headed across to the Dunker Church. There, we were happy to find a
contingency of Georgia Confederates who had camped out the night
before. We made some new friends, and enjoyed a visit with them.
We
continued with a tour of the battlefield on foot, with flags, and made
our way back around to the Visitor's center for a picnic lunch.
Throughout the day, we had many opportunities to talk with visitors
about our flags and the Va Flaggers. We distributed literature and
educated folks about the flags we were carrying. Flagging a National
Battlefield is fun... like shooting fish in a barrel, Flagger style!
After
lunch we headed over to the monument, and planted 56 Georgia Stick
Flags on any marker that mentioned Georgia troops, as well as at the
monument.
The ceremony was
very beautiful, with color guards, an excellent speaker, and gun
salute. We asked the members of the commission if they could PLEASE come
up to Virginia and teach our commission a thing or two about how to
commemorate the Sesquicentennial!
After
the ceremony, we headed over to the Sunken Lane, to tour that area,
and pay respects to the men who died there. We were moved at the sights,
and again, had the opportunity to share about the flags we carried.
We concluded the trip with a visit to Burnside's Bridge and the Robert E Lee Monument.
"as though you had set fire to a cane brake of a thousand acres"
A Georgia soldier describes the escalating volume of musketry coming from Lee's left at Burnside's Bridge.
It
was a great day for the Va Flaggers, with an opportunity to do advance
the colors, honor Georgia's Confederate dead, and educate the public,
all in one beautiful day! Special thanks to Kelly Barrow for the
invitation to the event, and to the Georgia Civil War Commission for a
job very well done!
More photos here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151252868324274.515888.698334273&type=1
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Monday,
October 22nd: The Va Flaggers have been invited to speak at the John
M. Jordan Camp #581, SCV in South Boston, VA. 6:00 pm at the Spare
Times Grill located on Rt. 58, one mile east of the intersection of Rt.
58 with Rt. 501 on the south side of South Boston, VA. The restaurant
is located in the World of Sports Complex on Rt. 58.
Saturday,
October 27: Guided bus tour of Stuart's ride around Richmond.
Sponsored by Edmund Ruffin FireEaters Camp 3000, SCV.
Sunday, December 2nd: Mechanicsville Christmas Parade http://www.mechanicsvillerotary.org/Events/MechanicsvilleChristmasParade.aspx
Susan Hathaway
Va Flaggers
Va Flaggers
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Friday, October 5, 2012
Va Flaggers Updagte: 1st Anniversary Celebration/Picnic
Va Flaggers Updagte: 1st Anniversary Celebration/Picnic
From: info@VAflaggers.com
On
September 30, 2012, the Va Flaggers gathered for a family picnic to
celebrate our One Year Anniversary. In all, 64 folks attended, with some
traveling from as far away as Miami to join us! God was smiling on the
Flaggers, providing an absolutely beautiful day... full of sunshine
and cool breezes to lift the flags.
It
was a time to look back on a year of amazing growth, hard fought
victories, and battles still being waged...to look forward to what the
next year will hold... and just enjoy some great fellowship and good
times!
Special thanks to Grayson
and Marie Jennings for their hospitality, and Judy Parsons Smith and
Stuart Madison for contributing some great photos!
Thanks
also to each and every one of you have supported us, prayed for us,
and/or flagged with us. As we enter our second year, it is obvious that
now, more than ever, those of us of Confederate ancestry need to take a
stand against those who would have our flags removed, our honorable
ancestors denigrated, and our history forever erased. There is little
doubt our next year will bring many more opportunities to forward the
colors, as we prepare to face the enemy with the same honor, bravery,
and sacrifice of our forefathers.
"If
you are true Southerners, reach back to your Southern roots for enough
fortitude to stand up...Our heritage cannot be saved if they see us as
weaklings. During Lincoln's War the South had 104,000 deserters. Think
before you join them." - Elijah Coleman
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Va Flaggers
Va Flaggers
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
WHY THE USA FEARS THE TRADITIONAL CONFEDERATE FLAG WAVING SOUTH
WHY THE USA FEARS THE TRADITIONAL
CONFEDERATE FLAG WAVING SOUTH
By Tim Manning
Lexington Flag Rally: I love Lexington, Virginia and
pastored a beautiful church for several years serving Lexington
and Buena Vista, and visited the VMI campus
very often. The members of this church cut their own timber, milled the wood,
built the church, did their own stained glass windows and parsonage and did a
beautiful wood carving on the parsonage door. I have baptized families here,
performed their marriages, dedicated their babies and performed their funerals.
In 1951 I met
with three men who fought under the Confederate battle flags and was raised on
stories about the war told to me by my family members who survived the war.
They did not all survive. Several will killed as unarmed civilians simply
because they were civilians living in the South.
(We often
ignore the Official Records of the U.S. Department of War that states that 80%
of the U.S.
war effort against the CSA was directed against civilians in order to demoralize
Southern men so that they would stop resisting the invasion.)
I have taught
in Virginia
communities and universities for 43 years defending western civilization
against incipient cultural Marxists and Marxism that have been working to
undermine our classical civilization for over 400 years.
We are here
today to defend civil and constitutional rights of Virginians as understood and
established in the western world which we call civilization.
In 1948 British
barrister and writer Sir Patrick Hastings wrote a summary of World Wars I &
II: he wrote, “War is the creation of individuals not of nations.” This is so
important to remember especially as we consider the consequences of Abraham
Lincoln's War to Prevent Southern Independence.
We are here to
defend the noble symbols and flags that represent the fight against an
intrusive and violent invasion of our Virginia State
by an out of control central government by the most noble men of honor during
the 1860's.
We are here to
fight bigotry and the anti-Southern racism and demagoguery imposed by the
Marxist media in Virginia's
airways.
Thomas Hobbes,
who developed some of the fundamentals of European liberal social and political
thought (not to be confused with American liberalism today by the extreme
left), writing in the 16th century on the nature of strongly centralized
governments that we generally called “empires” wrote on how empires grow their
political authority and powers through playing one group in a state against
another group or culture in the State.
The purpose of
scheme was to convince people that the government must assume more power and
authority to protect them from the evils of the past and those who posed a
possible threat to them. The state constructed these straw men to socially
engineer and manipulate people to further enhance their power and control over
a country.
Hobbes also
observed that meaningful dissent was not be permitted or tolerated. The
Christians and their influence in the Roman empire
had to be NULLIFIED and DELEGITIMIZED and INVALIDATED. Distinctive cultural and
religious groups must be snuffed out and not permitted to have a place at the
tables of public dialogue and discourse.
Hobbes called
this process of invalidation “squashing the worms of the empire.”
Today this same
censorship is happening right here in Virginia
where the important and classical concepts of freedom and liberty were first
formulated on the North American continent. Most of the first presidents and
supreme court justices were from Virginia.
The descendants of these honorable Founders defended the freedoms and the
liberties cherished by their families in the Confederate military.
There are
millions like me in the united
States who remember who we are. Aside from
our commitment to God and our families we still consider ourselves State
citizens. As I have traveled the world and spoken in many foreign nations to
college and church groups I am introduced as a “Virginian.” Some of those who
lecture with me are North Carolinians,
Georgians, Texans, Floridians, and so on. These flags which some leaders of
Lexington now wish to no longer fly during the period we CELEBRATE Lee-Jackson
Day are honored flags of Virginia and our families.
These
Confederate flags represent a noble period of Virginia's history sanctified by the blood
of faithful freedom loving Virginia Statesmen, and our relatives. These flags
also represent us personally in our love for “government by the consent of the
governed” during a time when our central government in D.C. did not forcibly
rule over our State and our families. These flags represent US and we are the
ones who get to define what these flags mean.
We do remember
who we are and why our families risked everything to preserve the Constitution
of the United States while
folks in New England were burning copies of
the U.S. Constitution in their streets.
My grandfather,
uncles and cousins walked home from Appomattox
to Norfolk, Richmond,
Lexington, Williamsburg,
Portsmouth, Roanoke and other smaller towns.
Those of us in
the Sons of Confederate Veterans learn and honor an accurate history of our Virginia and the Confederate
States of America and we seek to preserve our
ancestors and U.S. Founders view of the U.S. Constitution which we consider a
righteous heritage.
Heritage is
what you take from the past into your life as your own. We consider these flags
with their Southern St. Andrews Christian Crosses a political and spiritual
symbol representing a war we call “The Last Stand of Christendom on this
hemisphere. Subsequent to this war the Confederate Battle Flag of
Bishop-General Leonidas Polk became the universal symbol of the Christian
churches.
Take a quick
look at South Africa
where consideration was granted to the non-white majority as the population
changed they:
1.
first targeted the destruction of their national
symbols
2.
changed the names of roads and bridges,
3.
changed the names of schools
4.
changed the names of cities
5.
changed the pictures on their currency to avoid the
pictures of old heroes now considered white racists and slave owners
6.
NOW, their inner cities are falling into disrepair
7.
their history is being rewritten
8.
roads and building falling into disrepair
9.
invasions of private land and property are tolerated
10. the
owners of this property are being killed
11. only
9% of murderers are put in jail
12. legal
authorities are being bribed and it is OK
13. criminals
are voted into office
14. Your
tax dollars will go to those who don’t earn and don’t pay
15. organizations
that used to have access to state funds such as old age homes, the arts, and
veteran’s services, are simply abandoned
Once you lose
social, cultural, religious and political dominance, there is no getting it
back again.
You see, it is
not our flags that the egalitarians and socialists of modernity hate and we
know that. It is us they hate because of our Christianity and our dedication
still to the U.S. Founders view of the U.S. Constitution. We consider the
prohibition of these flags as a hate crime against us. Sowing the winds of
hatred against traditional thinking Southerners will in time reap the whirlwinds
of a fragmented State.
Lee-Jackson Day
is a time honored State Holiday. It is
treasonous to prevent us from flying the symbols under which these men of
excellent character offered their lives for our freedoms and our liberty. This
holiday is our memorial service to their memory which is a form of religious
service.
I invite the
city representatives to not participate in this still new politics of hate and
fear and permit us to continue to fly our flags in the city as we have done for
so many years. The lack of the free expression of diversity by the Lexington
City Council is exemplary of totalitarian states. Diversity is limited by the
intolerance of our leaders. Freedom is tough and often sloppy offending the
weak of mind and heart.
Freedom is more
defined, not by what it advocates, but more by what it tolerates. The Lexington
City Council has an opportunity to step forward and put freedom into practice.
Blocking our diversity is NOT the city's right, nor is it a moral right.
Practicing our diversity is our moral right and it is representative of the
best values contained in the American View of Freedom and Liberty. Our freedom is being held hostage to
the New World Order. A responsible people would not and will not permit this.
CONCLUSION
The greatest
threat to American hegemony with its all consuming militant fascism is still
the U.S. Founder's view of the U.S. Constitution which was so vigorously
defended by the Southern people during Lincoln's
War to Prevent Southern Independence.
The South was
and is a classical civilization and culture still capable of understanding the
Founder's view, because of their classicist western culture with its deeply
spiritual orthodox Biblical view of the nature of human government and culture.
These views remain a hated enigma to secularist humanists and their egalitarian
political ideology that thrives in democracies.
They do not
fear violence from Southerner's so much as the universal appeal of Southern
political views when given a chance in the political arena. This is why Marxist
propagandists use U.S.
slavery and American/yankee Nativism (racism) as a smoke screen diversion when
discussing Lincoln's
war.
This is why
there is no real objective discussion on race and racism. Whites must be
automatically considered racist in order to use guilt manipulation to establish
a communist world view. The goal of totalitarian socialism is not socialism,
but it serves as a “softer” route to communism.
The
constitutional issues of freedom and liberty must not be permitted at the table
of public dialogue and discussion where the Founder's views would be presented
by Southern voices. This is why the FBI/NSA/CIA have heavily invested in
infiltrating SCV State organizations and camps and other Southern heritage and
political movements and societies from the very time the SCV was formed over
100 years ago.
No, it is not
our Confederate Battle Flags that they fear or the discovery of their false
flag attacks on our Southern symbols and political leaders that they fear, but
they do fear a rebirth of the Founder's view of constitution government with
its threatening freedom and liberty that limits, controls and holds government
and its servants fully accountable.
U.S.
egalitarians fear the moral foundations of orthodox Christians that cannot be
so easily manipulated by the political whims and ever-changing winds of social
engineering with its consequential social disorder that so marks socialist
societies. No, it is not our flags they fear, it is Christians they fear. They
fear us.
We must be MARGINALIZED, we must be DELEGITIMIZED, we
must be INVALIDATED and seen as IRRELEVANT to the rising new social order, the
new world order. The heart of the South beats faintly, it is not well, but it
is still alive and it is gaining new support and enthusiasm. Well, we will not
go away, we will not change and we will NOT SO SILENTLY INTO THE NIGHT.
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