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U.S. Army seeks removal of Lee, ‘Stonewall’ Jackson honors

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Post  fshnski Tue Dec 17, 2013 2:44 pm

The U.S. Army War College, which molds future field generals, has begun discussing whether it should remove the portraits of Confederate generals, including Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

The college, nestled in rural Pennsylvania on the 500-acre Carlisle Barracks, is doing an inventory of all its paintings and photographs with an eye toward rehanging them in historical themes to tell a particular Army stories.


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Post  News Hawk Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:12 am

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics famously produced "Un-Persons", and even removed their images from iconic photographs.

What have we become?

 Mad 


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Post  WHL Wed Dec 18, 2013 8:03 am

Why don't we remove Washington and Lincoln and all the famous presidents. After all we used to have President's Day and now we have Martin Luther King Day. Maybe we could have Mandela day.
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