Levi Battery
01-22-2007, 12:07 PM
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The other day I was having a conversation with my daughter and mentioned that our SCV Camp was having its monthly meeting. She does not understand in her words “why grown men belong to such a brotherhood”. I first told her that we don’t use alters nor do we have animal or human sacrifices to appease the Gods.
She was joking when she said it, buy joking aside.
It got me to thinking, the truth and shame of this type of mine frame is that there are lots of people who truly have this concept of ours and other veteran organizations and about America as a whole. I love my daughter very much and in time I hope to bring her the knowledge of what the Sons of Confederate Veterans or any veteran group stand for and for the meaning of history and how it is to be accurately portrayed.
People think like this because there is a vast lack of understanding and a failure of us as parents, history buffs and even some of our school systems to teach us and our children the truth. In some cases they simply use the revisionist version history. It is these foundations or should I say lack of, which our children grow up with. With these misunderstanding’s of American history, or for that fact, world history, they venture into a world saturated with TV, radio and other medias which spout “Yellow Journalism” that is the un –truth or only truth as they see it. We as parents, members of the SCV and Americans have a momentous task before us. It’s more than just keeping the history and truth about the Confederate Veteran and our relative’s alive.
The lack of knowledge such as this not only takes away from your Confederate heritage but more importantly, it undermines the “Constitution of the United States” and tears away from the “Bill of Rights”. Just look at the first four amendments. I mean, if you just read them, their pretty simple and are not hard to understand. Then comes the liberal elite and the so called highly educated. You know, those folks who know what’s best for us dumb hicks. They have to intrepid and re-intrepid those precious documents. Let’s face it, our forefathers wrote them so that the simple farmer, blacksmith, lumberjack, trader, everyday man or yes, even us dumb hicks could understand them. The signers of the Declaration of Independence knew what they were writing. All of our cherished and beloved articles and documents by which this nation was conceived, were written so that any person with “common sense” (no book pun intended) could understand them
This United States did many things to bring us back together after the Civil War. In many cases during the Spanish-American and Philippine Wars, former Confederate offices were out in command of United States Army units. Today some try to tear us apart by attacking out cherished symbols and flags. They want us to be ashamed of our heritage and not proud as we should be.
People who express their ignorance in their unfounded opinions, whether it be about the Confederate solder, the Confederate Flag (s) or any portion of American history are the reason we are becoming such a diverse society. We have allowed this politically correct way of thinking and culture to separate and segregate us from each other. We were always a “melting pot”. You should be proud of you heritage and always remember, no matter you nationality, you are an American first and foremost. It’s time we get back to the basics that this country was founded on.
Deo Vindice,
John R. Tucker Sr.
Judge Advocate
Buffalo Guards Camp-1975
Buffalo, New York
The other day I was having a conversation with my daughter and mentioned that our SCV Camp was having its monthly meeting. She does not understand in her words “why grown men belong to such a brotherhood”. I first told her that we don’t use alters nor do we have animal or human sacrifices to appease the Gods.
She was joking when she said it, buy joking aside.
It got me to thinking, the truth and shame of this type of mine frame is that there are lots of people who truly have this concept of ours and other veteran organizations and about America as a whole. I love my daughter very much and in time I hope to bring her the knowledge of what the Sons of Confederate Veterans or any veteran group stand for and for the meaning of history and how it is to be accurately portrayed.
People think like this because there is a vast lack of understanding and a failure of us as parents, history buffs and even some of our school systems to teach us and our children the truth. In some cases they simply use the revisionist version history. It is these foundations or should I say lack of, which our children grow up with. With these misunderstanding’s of American history, or for that fact, world history, they venture into a world saturated with TV, radio and other medias which spout “Yellow Journalism” that is the un –truth or only truth as they see it. We as parents, members of the SCV and Americans have a momentous task before us. It’s more than just keeping the history and truth about the Confederate Veteran and our relative’s alive.
The lack of knowledge such as this not only takes away from your Confederate heritage but more importantly, it undermines the “Constitution of the United States” and tears away from the “Bill of Rights”. Just look at the first four amendments. I mean, if you just read them, their pretty simple and are not hard to understand. Then comes the liberal elite and the so called highly educated. You know, those folks who know what’s best for us dumb hicks. They have to intrepid and re-intrepid those precious documents. Let’s face it, our forefathers wrote them so that the simple farmer, blacksmith, lumberjack, trader, everyday man or yes, even us dumb hicks could understand them. The signers of the Declaration of Independence knew what they were writing. All of our cherished and beloved articles and documents by which this nation was conceived, were written so that any person with “common sense” (no book pun intended) could understand them
This United States did many things to bring us back together after the Civil War. In many cases during the Spanish-American and Philippine Wars, former Confederate offices were out in command of United States Army units. Today some try to tear us apart by attacking out cherished symbols and flags. They want us to be ashamed of our heritage and not proud as we should be.
People who express their ignorance in their unfounded opinions, whether it be about the Confederate solder, the Confederate Flag (s) or any portion of American history are the reason we are becoming such a diverse society. We have allowed this politically correct way of thinking and culture to separate and segregate us from each other. We were always a “melting pot”. You should be proud of you heritage and always remember, no matter you nationality, you are an American first and foremost. It’s time we get back to the basics that this country was founded on.
Deo Vindice,
John R. Tucker Sr.
Judge Advocate
Buffalo Guards Camp-1975
Buffalo, New York