A modest way to fix, in part, a gross and embarrassing overreaction
The text of an information paper that the Arizona Division of the SCV has sent to all GOP* members of the state’s Congressional delegation in Congress.
(This is Part 2 of a Great read form Don Smith over at Confederate Honor. It is well worth a Follow - DD)
Part 2
For decades, U.S. Army National Guard units that were descended from former Confederate units had battle streamers from their Confederate service on their regimental colors. The Naming Commission, created by Congress in 2020, is most widely remembered for proposing new names for Army bases that had been named for former Confederate officers. The commission recommended that the Confederate streamers be removed, and the Secretary of Defense agreed. They were removed in the summer of 2023.
The Arizona Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) calls on the Secretary of Defense to reverse that action and put the streamers back on the unit colors. Here is why:
· Having Union and Confederate campaign streamers on the National Guard colors demonstrated that, after the war, former enemies could not only reconcile and come together, but also find ways to commemorate the honorable actions of their former foes. That is a powerful example our military can (and has, in the past) set for other countries.
· E plurubus unum. Out of many, one. Putting Union and Confederate battle streamers on National Guard colors shows that we are able to take the strengths of former enemies and use them as building blocks for a new, improved American military and nation. It is the same reason we have, on U.S. Army helicopters, the names of Native American tribes. The children of…
Dixie Drudge, thank you very much for posting a link to my Substack.
Everyone, we need your help! Southern members of Congress, especially ones who represent districts where there is strong support for Confederate heritage, are trying to ignore the issue of the Naming Commission---a commission Congress created.
Please share this list with your member of Congress and ask them to support the effort to return the Confederate battle streamers to Army National Guard colors, or give a public on-the-record explanation why they won't.
If we allow them to ignore us...they will!