x-sender: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com x-receiver: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com Received: from mail pickup service by sc.lmhostediq.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 20 Dec 2015 18:58:03 -0500 thread-index: AdE7gkN7DEAqjACiTda1pDXCxBK32g== Thread-Topic: Removal of Confederate Flag - Repercusssions. From: To: Subject: Removal of Confederate Flag - Repercusssions. Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 18:58:03 -0500 Message-ID: <395EE9D99B93447FBB00B5791AF83039@IQ12> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7601.17609 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Dec 2015 23:58:03.0678 (UTC) FILETIME=[439FABE0:01D13B82] CUSTOM Mr./Mrs. David R. Bryan Retired English Teacher (high school English 39 years) On behalf of Sons of Confederate Veterans and other organizations 2238 Haystack Way Myrtle Beach SC 29579 drb1944@yahoo.com 843-236-4335 843-333-7676 GOVE Removal of Confederate Flag - Repercusssions. 75.182.38.100 Hon. Gov. Nikki Haley, Below is a response I made regarding the foolish decision to remove monuments located in New Orleans. The City Council voted 6-1 to remove all Confederate monuments, including a beautiful monument to Robert E. Lee. This is a sham and national disgrace, and it all started with your terrible decision to remove the battle flag from our statehouse grounds. This decision lacks common sense, is an affront to all historians and those who would preserver heritage and our American history with all its virtues and vices, ugliness and beauty. Please take time to read my response regarding the decision of the City Council of New Orleans. I would most appreciate a personal response, either a phone call or personal email. I cannot support Republicans like Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott, and Tom Rice who vote for budgets that support sanctuary cities, and I cannot support your decision to take down the flag. I will NEVER vote for a Democrat, as their policies are anathema to me. This leaves me with nobody really to vote for. The new Congress has done nothing as far as I am concerned, and our country is declining morally, militarily, and economically. I have son who graduated from USAWC and is a Lt. Col. who served under General Odierno and Col.Ferrari. I know what is going on in our public schools and our military. We are on the brink of our demise as a once great nation. We definitely are not the "united" states of America, but the "divided" states of America. MY REPONSE RE NEW ORLEANS CITY COUNCIL'S DECISION: Here it is all laid out, clearly and transparently - the move to re-write American history to satisfy Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the NAACP. We have lost control over sanity and reason in this country. This is another Civil War as far as I am concerned. You could take down statues of anybody you want, anybody with whom you disagree or find offensive. Destroy all the MLK Boulevards in the United States, thousands of them. Destroy any monument to Andrew Jackson, who allowed the removal of the Cherokee, Creek, Catawba, Choctaw and other native Americans, stealing their property and their homes. Take down statues of any American officer who served in the Army who drove Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians from their homeland, with thousands dying along the way. Destroy the American flag under which these soldiers committed this atrocity, and it was an atrocity. Destroy West Point, the infamous Academy from which officers such as Robert E. Lee and many other Confederate officers graduated. What a terrible school to honor when it has graduated such evil men. We must rid ourselves of all the military schools which have produced such heinous characters as the devout and highly qualified military general Stonewall Jackson, and must positively destroy any replica of probably the best cavalry officer on either side in the Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest. Many blacks owned and profited from slaves. Let's be sure to teach that fact, and also the fact that many northerners profited immensely from slavery as did many black Africans who sold their own people into slavery. How are we going to "remove" those ugly facts from our history books, or have they already been conveniently removed? What parts of history are we going to purge and what parts are we going to keep because they meet our approval. You cannot hide Hiroshima or Nagasaki or Pearl Harbor or Little Big Horn or Gettysburg or Franklin or Fredericksburg or Atlanta or Lincoln or Lee or Grant or Sherman. Is a statue to Sherman OK? It's OK with me, because he did the job Lincoln wanted him to do and allowed him to do - completely desecrated Atlanta and Columbia. Let's just remove all the museums and battlefields and monuments and act like we never had a civil war and that the only "GOOD" people were northerners who fought for the Union and that every stinking, rotten Confederate soldier was a slave owner who cruelly whipped his slaves and abused them. What a crock this all is, and it all began with my own governor, Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina, my two Senators (Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott), my own Congressman (Tom Rice), and of course the infamous Jim Clyburn, who would support anything and everything any Democrat would support. He's the guy who was always standing behind one of the slimiest politicians ever, Nancy Pelosi. What are we going to do with all those incredible monuments at Gettysburg and Richmond? Tear them all down and put up some statues of slaves? We can honor black men and women who deserve honor, and we should. But annihilating our United States history and rewriting our textbooks to accommodate these people who want to change history is a huge mistake, because you can't change what happened, just learn the truth and try to avoid mistakes of the past. I would never visit New Orleans with a City Council as stupid as this one. Keep your city to yourselves and build whatever statues you want and try to teach history the way you would like it to be, not the way it is and will forever remain. You are fools.