It’s official. I have reached the milestone of being an old fogey. Exactly when did this happen? Well, it started during the Obama’s administration’s cultural revolution of social upheaval and complete rejection of long held beliefs in family, tradition and morality. This rejection has snowballed into an avalanche of Jacobinism that is destroying our history and the very fabric that makes us Americans.
This year I visited three of our military national parks: Shiloh, Chickamauga and Chattanooga. I can not help but contrast the character of the people who visited these battlefields to the snowflakes who are tearing down Confederate monuments. The former showed respect for those who fought and died in the great struggle whether that be union or independence, while the latter are a bunch of nihilists that respect nothing, not even themselves.
These monuments are remembrances. They were erected so that future generations will not forget their history and maybe learn from it. But most, such as the monument in Durham, are memorials to that communities dead whose unmourned remains are strewn across a distant battlefield.
As I was touring these battlefields, I couldn’t help but wonder as to what Southerners of that generation, who experienced the destruction of their family and homes by a Yankee invasion, thought about all these monuments commemorating a Northern victory. Surly, they had to have some resentment, if not, outright hatred for these conquerors. Why didn’t they destroy these monuments? Here is an excerpt from an article in the Civil War Trust describing the dedication of our first national military park at Chickamauga:
In September 1889, veterans of the Army of the Cumberland and the Army of Tennessee gathered in Crawfish Springs, Georgia, to hold a grand barbeque in commemoration of the 26th anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga. With thousands in attendance, the governor of Georgia welcomed the former soldiers of both armies as guests and declared the event to be a celebration of both sides’ deeds and their renewed and eternal bonds of brotherhood. Former Union general William Rosecrans, addressing the crowd, said, “The occasion is one for which you will look through history in vain to find a second. Today ... survivors of [the battle], both Blue and Gray ... are assembled together to consider how they shall make it a national memorial ground.... It took great men to win that battle, but it takes greater men still ... to wipe away all the ill feeling which naturally grows out of such a contest.”
How can this snowflake generation have any ill feelings over something they never experienced, or have no understanding? We can thank all these Marxists professors who have indoctrinated our youth into hating their country and its history. But I can assure these Jacobins one thing: no monument will be erected to commemorate their destructive achievements.
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