Pee Dee Rifles - Camp News

Fwd: January Lee Jackson

2009-12-12T22:01:00.001-05:00

Reminder - deadline to register for the Lee Jackson Banquet is January 31st.

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From: ken thrasher <kt007@sccoast.net>
Date: Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: January Lee Jackson
To: hayestown <hayestown@bellsouth.net>
Cc: David Chief of Staff Rentz <heritageride@juno.com>, Frank Commander Berry <HRS22@sc.rr.com>, Randall Commander Burbage <capt10sc@comcast.net>, KirK Commander Carter <pvtwilliamcarter@yahoo.com>, Jason Commander Corder <rockytopsc@bellsouth.net>, Gary Commander Davis <gracing13@prtcnet.com>, Michael Commander Givens <givens.scv@gmail.com>, Don Commander Gordon <DGORDON.SCV@gmail.com>, Mark Commander Humphreeville <ac4ht@aol.com>, David Commander Mitchell <loganmitchell@aol.com>, Jerry Commander Pittman <rmcm6121@aol.com>, Robert Commander Roper <rhriii7@prtcnet.com>, Trip Commander Wilson <tripwilsonnavy@earthlink.net>, Jeff Commmander Antley <jantley@comcast.net>, "Rev. Ed Westbury" <jawdew@truvista.net>, David Chaplain Chaltas <david.chaltas@letcher.kyschools.us>, Allen Chaplain Kelly <AllenKelly@sc.rr.com>, Page Chaplain Townsend <forevereyes7@aol.com>, Steve Adjudant Douglas <dougfam001@msn.com>, Joseph Adjudant Thompson <JOSEPH5498@wmconnect.com>, Ken Howle <pdinfantryman@yahoo.com>, "Daryl Lt. Commander Hardwick" <rebelyelldh@yahoo.com>, Vic Phillips Colonel <scconfederateson@aol.com>, Albert Commander Jackson <santeedigest@aol.com>, John Commander Buddin <jabuddin@yahoo.com>, Chris Commander Herron <muddycreekforge@yahoo.com>, Charles Commander McRae <cmcrae55@aol.com>, Vernon Commander Parker <lkparker@sccoast.net>, James Commander Price <heavyair21@yahoo.com>, Artie Commander Quick <arthurljr@bellsouth.net>, Ron Commander York <RandTYork@earthlink.net>

Compatriots and Gentlemen,

I hope all had a great Thanksgiving Holiday with family and friends. The 7th Brigade Lee-Jackson Banquet will be upon us before we know it. It will be on January 16, 2010 at 6 pm at the Sprigmaid Resort in Myrtle Beach. The cost of registration is $30 per person and Springmaid is offering rooms at $59 plus tax. Registration forms can be found online at http://www.scv132.org. The information for contacting Springmaid Resort is also posted there. Just tell them that you are with the Sons of Confederate Veterans for the $59 room rate. We are looking to have a great time that night be sure to get your registration forms in before the January 4 deadline, to insure that enough food will be prepared for the Banquet.

also note my new email address. it is now kt007@sccoast.net

Looking forward to seeing a large turnout for the Lee- Jackson Banquet.

Ken Thrasher
Commander Litchfield 132

Fw: 2010 Leadership Conference

2009-12-12T22:00:00.001-05:00

Gentlemen,

Please read the attached information about the SC Division Leadership Conference. I am planning on attending and invite anyone who it able to join me. This will be a great opportunity to learn from and meet the other leaders throughout the state. It will also give us an excellent opportunity to promote the State Convention coming up in March. If you are planning on running for office next year - this would be an excellent opportunity for you!

Please let me know if you would like to attand and I can make reservations for you.

Sincerely,

Ron

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Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Subject: Fw: 2010 Leadership Conference
To: Albert Commander Jackson <santeedigest@aol.com>, David Chief of Staff Rentz <heritageride@juno.com>, John Commander Buddin <jabuddin@yahoo.com>, Randall Commander Burbage <capt10sc@comcast.net>, Chris Commander Herron <muddycreekforge@yahoo.com>, Charles Commander McRae <cmcrae55@aol.com>, Vernon Commander Parker <lkparker@sccoast.net>, James Commander Price <heavyair21@yahoo.com>, Artie Commander Quick <arthurljr@bellsouth.net>, Kenneth Commander Thrasher <kt007@sccoast.net>, Ron Commander York <RandTYork@earthlink.net>

Gentlemen and Commanders:

Please pass this information from CoS David Rentz to your camps for the upcoming Leadership Conference in Batesburg Leesville in January.

Deus Patria et Familia,

Donnie Hayes, Commander

7th Brigade SC SCV ANV

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From: heritageride@juno.com <heritageride@juno..com>
Subject: 2010 Leadership Conference
To: givens.scv@gmail.com, CPLDSofHB@aol.com, DGORDON.SCV@GMAIL.COM, rhriii7@prtcnet.com, jawdew@truvista.net, hchalmers@yahoo.com, loganmitchell@aol.com, Ac4ht@aol.com, hayestown@bellsouth.net, hrs22@sc.rr.com, rmcm6121@aol.com, TripwilsonNavy@earthlink.net, pvtwilliamcarter@yahoo.com, sc12hornetscsa@yahoo.com, 32ndncregiment@prtcnet.com, wilsonr@atlanticbullionandcoin.com, rockytopsc@bellsouth.net, jantley@comcast.net, gene.hogan@gmail.com
Cc: santeedigest@aol.com, SCVAdjutant@aol.com, jharris353@comcast.net, dougfam001@msn.com, pdinfantryman@yahoo.com, chaneyhill@bellsouth.net, heritageride@juno.com, capt10sc@comcast.net, chalmers.scv@gmail.com, kiltedkelly@inbox.com
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 12:11 PM

Commanders,

I have attached a document for the upcoming SC Division Leadership Conference. The conference will kick off on Saturday January 9th, 2010 and conclude on Sunday January 10th.

On Friday the January 8th, 2010 @ 5:00pm, the SC Division Executive Council will convene for business at Camp Kinard.

I need all Brigade Commanders communicate with your camps and put together a list of all attendees from your brigade. Please forward this information to your camps. It is imperative that I receive a list from each brigade of attendees before December 31, 2009 in order to let the conference center know how much food to prepare. Information needed required:

Compatriot's Name:_____________________
Camp:________________________________
Staying the night:
Friday:_________ Saturday:_______________
Room type prefered:_______________________________
Sharing with other camp members:________________________

Remember there is a limited amount of room types. It will be first come first serve on my list. Lodge rooms are hotel style, if they fill up the Village is bunkbed style and you will need to bring a sleeping bag or linen. See the attachment for

Division staff and officers contact me directly for your room requirements.

David E. Rentz
Chief of Staff
South Carolina Division
843-530-1766

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Pee Dee Rifles Christmas Party

2009-12-07T18:20:00.001-05:00

Seasons Greetings,

I would like to remind you about the Pee Dee Rifles Christmas Party / Awards Program on Thursday, December 10th. We will meet at Woodstone BBQ at 7pm (formerly Jakies) on Pamplico Highway across from Cains and Carolina Carpet & Tile. You can order from the menu or eat from the buffet. I look forward to seeing you on Thursday night at 7pm!

Here are a couple of reminders:

1) Lee Jackson registration deadline is Dec 31st (Springmaind Resort, Myrtle Beach)

2) New Meeting Location is Venus Pancake House (4th Tuesday starting January 26th)

3) Still Need Your Help Selling Advertisements for the Program

Merry Christmas,

Ron York

Commander

Convention Program Advertisements

2009-11-30T22:41:00.001-05:00

Gentlemen,

I am writing once again to seek your help in soliciting advertisements for the convention program. We had 43 advertisements in the 2005 convention program. Right now I have 28 - we are only down by 15 advertisements compared to last time.

I would like to shoot for a goal of 45 total advertisements - that means we only have 17 more to go! I have spoken with several of you who have told me about ads they have sold but I have not received the checks or documentation yet. Please work to get that stuff in to me as soon as you can. The deadline is January 31st - but I would like to have everything done before then and not wait until the last minute.

Yes, I know the economy is tight and folks arent spending as freely as they have in times past. However, dont let that be an excuse - they cant tell you no unless you ask. Shoot for some quarter page ($65) or business card size ($35) adds if you dont think you can sell the larger ones. Ask folks you do business with; my barber, accountant, mechanic, co-workers, sunday school members and friends have all pitched in to help.

17 adds in 60 days is an attainable goal - pitch in and do your part to make this convention a successful fundraiser for the camp! If everyone would sell just ONE advertisement in the next 60 days - that would be wonderful!

Please call or email with any questions. Attached is the advertisement form and you can also visit our website at www.peedeerifles.homestead.com for additional details about the convention.

I can not do it alone - will you help?

Sincerely,

Ron York

Commander

PEE DEE RIFLES - REMINDERS

2009-11-19T20:40:00.001-05:00

***RED DOE HISTORIC MARKER DECICATION***

The Red Doe Historic Marker Dedication is THIS SUNDAY Nov 22nd at 3pm. Please come out and support the Camp. Local news media will be present and it is open to the public. In the event of incliment weather - things will be moved indoors. Please plan to attend.

***MEETING REMINDER***

Our next meeting is Tuesday, November 24th at 7pm at Shoneys. This will be our last meeting at Shoneys. Our guest speaker is Dr Christopher Amer, South Carolina State Under Water Archeologist. He will be giving a presentation on the findings at the Mars Bluff Naval Yard and the update on the recovery efforts of the guns from the CSS Pee Dee. Spread the word and bring a friend!

We also have MUCH important business to discuss.

We will be nominating officers for the 2010-2012 term
We will decide on a meeting location for next year
Camp Awards will be decided
Convention Update

I also want to remind you that I need your help selling advertisements for the Convention Program. I can not do this alone - PLEASE HELP! We need to sell another $1000 in advertisements. You can also look at this as a Camp Fundraiser. We cant do raffles and other fund raising efforts have not been much of a success. Use this opportunity to raise some much needed money for the Camp. Will you help? Please call or email if you have any questions.

***CHRISTMAS PARTY***

Thursday, December 10th - 7-9pm

Woodstone BBQ (formerly Jakies)

1153 Pamplico Highway (across from Carolina Carpet & Tile and Cains BBQ)

Fwd: Larry Gibson

2009-11-17T22:52:00.001-05:00

Gentlemen,

A camp member needs our prayers.

I just got word that Larry Gibson was in a motorcycle accident yesterday, and he is at MUSC at Charleston, South Carolina, and has about a 50-50 chance of living and possible brain damage.

Carl Hill

Convention Help

2009-11-08T14:06:00.001-05:00

Gentlemen,

I am writing seeking your help for the convention. We have the honor of hosting the 2010 State Convention which will kick off the Sesquicentennial Celebrations here in South Carolina. We are nearing the 120 day mark and there is MUCH that still needs to be done.

The most pressing priority right now is Program Advertisements. We MUST sell another $1000 in advertisements. Please contact local businesses you deal with and ask them for their support. The Convention Program will be a magazine (8 1/2 x 11) size publication with 50-60 black/white printed pages and a full color front/back cover. Our graphic artist can create an advertisement based off the information they provide OR we can use one they already have prepared. This is critical - we need to get these ads sold as soon as possible. It wont take long to reach a our target of $1000 if everyone pitches in and helps out. I would like to see this done before our next meeting on Tuesday, November 24th. Please help and do your part to make this a success.

I also want to remind to you register NOW for the convention – don't wait. Registration for members of the Pee Dee Rifles Camp will be HALF OFF the early registration fee. Your cost to register for the Convention is $25.00. Please take a few minutes, fill out the form, write the check and get it to me. Take advantage of the reduced registration fee and do an Ancestor Memorial to honor your Confederate ancestor.

Advertisemen, Registration and Ancestor Memorial forms are attached or you can visit our website at www.peedeerifles.homestead.com to print the forms there.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Ron

Pee Dee Rifles News Update

2009-10-28T22:37:00.001-04:00

Gentlemen,

I hope you and your families are doing well. Here are some important announcements:

1) State Convention

Planning is coming along nicely for the state convention. If you have not done so - please visit our website at www.peedeerifles.homestead.com I need your help in the following areas, I cant do this alone.

Program Advertisements - This is our biggest priority right now. I need your help out there asking local businesses if they will advertise in our program. The Convention Program will be a magazine (8 1/2 x 11) size publication with 50-60 black/white printed pages and a full color front/back cover. Our graphic artist can create an advertisement based off the information they provide OR we can use one they already have prepared. This is critical - we need to get these ads sold as soon as possible. It wont take long to reach a our target of $1000 if everyone pitches in and helps out. Please help and do your part to make sure this is a success.
Convention Registrations - Registration for members of the Pee Dee Rifles Camp will be HALF OFF the early registration fee. It is not to early for you to register NOW. Your cost to register for the Convention is $25.00. Please take a few minutes, fill out the form, write the check and get it to me.
Ancestor Memorials - Take advantage of the reduced registration price and get some ancestor memorials to honor your Confederate ancestor.

2) Christmas Party

The Camp Christmas Party/Annual Awards Ceremony will be Thursday, December 10th at Woodstone BBQ from 7 - 9pm.

Woodstone BBQ - 513 Pamplico Hwy (across from Carolina Carpet and Tile and Cain's BBQ)

3) Red Doe Marker Dedication

The road side marker for Red Doe Plantation will be formally unveiled and dedicated on Sunday, November 22nd at 3pm. All are encouraged to attend. Bring your family and lets have a good showing from the Camp.

I know you guys and truly hope you will not wait until the last minute to take action. Please act now and get your registration in for the convention and help sell some ads. If all you sell is a business card size add, then we are that much closer to reaching our goal! Please pitch in and lets get these ads done. Please call me if you have any questions about the program booklet, graphics or size of the ads.

Thank you in advance for your help and support!

Sincerely,

Ron York

MEETING REMINDER

2009-10-24T09:23:00.001-04:00

Just a reminder that the Pee Dee Rifles will meet on Tuesday, October 27th (this Tuesday) at 7pm at Shoney's near Magnolia Mall. We have a great program lined up and there is alot of important business that needs to be discussed. I look forward to seeing you on Tuesday night.

Ron

Real Daughter of a Confederate Soldier Honored

2009-10-12T12:26:00.001-04:00

http://www2.scnow.com/scp/news/local/pee_dee/article/ellison_capers_chapter_of_the_united_daughters_of_the_confederacy_honors_mi/80288/

Fwd: SC SCV 24 karat revolver

2009-10-11T17:02:00.000-04:00

Gentlemen,

Please see the attached information about a limited edition pistol for the SC Division.

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From: <carl@cmpotter.us>
Date: Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Subject: SC SCV 24 karat revolver
To: Jeffery Antley <jantley@comcast.net>, Randall Burbage <capt10sc@comcast.net>, kenneth thrasher camp 132 <kt007@sprynet.com>, james york camp 1419 <randtyork@earthlink.net>, joseph melton camp 1428 <joemelton@charter.net>, benjamin bunting camp 143 <f58905@knology.net>, james rawls camp 1458 <stanrxman@hotmail.com>, vernon parker camp 1568 <lkparker@sccoast.net>, james price camp 1576 <jprice@forestry.state.sc.us>, henry reese camp 1672 <reesehome@comcast.net>, tracy sanders camp 1674 <carl.sanders@uap.com>, william smith camp 2027 <rebels.in.gray@gmail.com>, john sutton camp 2100 <banjopicker66@hotmail.com>, james bouchillon camp 36 <SCV16thSC@charter.net>, john price camp 39 <sprice1@embargmail.com>, claude mcelveen camp 47 <rufuss@charter.net>, william allen camp 48 <cmdr.camp-48@yahoo.com>, ron wilson camp 6 <wilson@atlanticbullionandcoin.com>, william geen camp 68 <wdgeen@csaincsc.com>, james wyrosdick camp 73 <**bad**jcool148@aol.com>, jeese dabbs camp 82 <jaydabbs@msn.com>, michael griffin camp1212 <fleawilly2001@hotmail.com>, John Harris <jharris353@comcast.net>, William Norris <elvisreddog@comcast.net>, David Rentz <heritageride@juno.com>, Alexander Trip Wilson <TripwilsonNavy@earthlink.net>

Gentlemen, Please get this out to everyone you know. We need to get these revolvers sold, so that we can get started on another project. If you have any questions call or e-mail me. Thanks

Carl Potter

Sc SCV Division Quartermaster

CONCEALED WEAPONS PERMIT: It's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.

MEETING REMINDER - PEE DEE RIFLES - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 22ND

2009-09-21T16:54:00.000-04:00

***MEETING REMINDER***

The Pee Dee Rifles meet on the 4th Tuesday (Tomorrow Night - Tuesday, September 22nd) at Shoneys near Magnolia mall. The meeting begins at 7pm, come early and join us for supper. Our guest speaker is Division Commander Randy Burbage. He is an excellent speaker - lets pack the house and hear what he has to say.

Bring a Friend - See you tomorrow!

Ron

Convention Program Advertisements

2009-09-13T14:15:00.001-04:00

Gentlemen,

The Division Convention is fastly approaching and will be here before you know it. I need your help selling advertisements for the program. We need to sell as many adds as possible to pay for the program and raise some much needed funds for the camp. This is a fairly easy thing to do - everyone should know someone who would at least purchase a business card size add - it isnt that expensive. Rob is an expert on graphics and advertising. He can create an add from a business card, logo or website. Below is a sample email you can send out:

The Pee Dee Rifles would be honored to advertise your business in the 2010 South Carolina Division Reunion Program. The convention program will be a high quality publication worthy to be sold on any news-stand in the country. The front and back cover will be full color with black and white interior print. The program will contain a mix of articles on local War Between the States subjects, Ancestor Memorials and Advertisements. Rob Jones of Southern Graphix will be doing the layout and printing of the program. The Pee Dee Rifles would be honored to advertise your business in the 2010 South Carolina Division Reunion Program. We will offer black and white advertisements for your business, memorial or personal message ads. Please send us your graphics ready ad or our design team will develop a suitable one for you. Please include any specific details or important information about your business that you would like for us to include in your advertisement. Deadline to receive advertisements is January 31, 2010.

Please complete the attached Advertisement Form. Email your graphics or questions to Convention Chairman, Ron York at scscv2010@gmail.com

Thank you in advance for your help,

Ron

Meeting Reminder

2009-08-24T08:11:00.001-04:00

*** Pee Dee Rifles - Meeting Reminder ***

The August Meeting of the Pee Dee Rifles will be held tomorrow night - Tuesday, August 25th at 7pm at Shoneys near Magnolia Mall. Come out - bring a friend - we have much to do!

Meeting Reminder

2009-07-26T13:16:00.001-04:00

Meeting Reminder

Tuesday, July 28th, 7pm-9pm, Shoneys (near Magnolia Mall)

Guest Speaker - Paul Avery - State Archaeologist speaking about the excavation of the Florence Stockade.

Be there - bring a friend!

Museum Fund Raiser - August 1st

2009-07-21T17:05:00.001-04:00

Only 10 days left! Please support this! (Hot off the Press: I understand that SCV Division Commander Randy Burbage will be bringing about 30 riders to this event.)

Attention all SCV members and friends of the South, please join in this Poker Run to help the museum.(see above attachment) Larry Gibson is organizing this and he says that the riders in the past few years have enjoyed the type of door prizes that they get (War Between the States Items) as opposed to Harley Davidson merchandise. You all know where you can find these items. So please come by and purchase a item from our gift shop to donate as door prizes.

Carl Hill, Jr., Director

War Between The States Museum
Florence, South Carolina

Another strike from ESPN

2009-07-10T22:09:00.001-04:00

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FYI,

Randy Burbage
South Carolina
Division Commander
Sons of Confederate Veterans

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From: "Gene Hogan" <gene.hogan@gmail.com>
To: "COMMANDER BURBAGE" <capt10sc@comcast.net>, "AAAChristopher M. AAASullivan" <druxurb@gmail.com>, "Michael Givens" <givens.scv@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 1:31:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Another strike from ESPN

Thursday, July 9, 2009
South Carolina continues to suffer

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

University of South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier had it right two years ago, when he had the stones to say "I realize I'm not supposed to get in the political arena as a football coach, but if anybody were to ask me about that damn Confederate flag, I would say we need to get rid of it."

That damn Confederate flag is at it again. Thirteen stars. Two stripes. Forty-seven years (and counting) of polarizing controversy.

The Atlantic Coast Conference has had enough of that flag: Earlier this week it pulled the 2011, 2012 and 2013 ACC baseball tournaments out of Spurrier's state and relocated them to neighboring North Carolina. Myrtle Beach's loss becomes Durham's and Greensboro's economic and tourism gain.

Meanwhile, the NCAA won't touch the state of South Carolina with a vaulter's pole. Same goes for Spurrier's home conference, the SEC. And all because of a Confederate battle flag that first flew atop the state Capitol dome in 1962 and still flies prominently, defiantly and wrongly at a Confederate soldier's monument on the Capitol grounds in Columbia.

"It's disrespectful," said Dr. Lonnie Randolph Jr., president of the South Carolina National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "And we ask them not to fly the flag on state property. … Don't show it on the statehouse grounds. Our statehouse grounds are a monument to white supremacy."

"No, I don't understand why they feel that way," said Randy Burbage, South Carolina division commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which has 3,500 state members, while the national organization numbers about 35,000. "Respecting each other's heritage is a two-way street."

Problem is, one man's heritage is another man's symbol of slavery, of Jim Crow laws, of Bull Connor and the working end of a police dog's teeth, of terrifyingly worse.

Burbage, who said the SCV is a "historical honor society" that has counterprotested against the Ku Klux Klan, sees a flag that represents a state's history and the Confederate soldiers who died for it. That flag, he said, deserves its rightful place of honor.

"It needs to be at that soldier's monument," Burbage said of the flag's present home.

But for Randolph, the stars and bars represent repression, brutality and inequality.

"I've been in South Carolina for 60 years," Randolph said. "I was part of the era of school desegregation in South Carolina. Every time there was some kind of racial violence … that [Confederate] flag showed up everywhere. Because it was part of the white supremacist movement. This isn't a matter of what I feel; it's a matter of what I know."

From a practical standpoint, the Confederate flag is the economic and public-relations equivalent of chugging antifreeze. A South Carolina city hasn't hosted a round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament since Greenville did in 2002. During that same span, North Carolina cities like Raleigh, Charlotte, Winston-Salem and Greensboro have done so seven times.

With occasional exceptions, the ACC takes the South Carolina bypass when it comes to holding league championship tournaments in the state. Clemson, an ACC member institution, will get the league's men's and women's track championships next year. But no neutral sites in South Carolina will be awarded a site bid without the blessings of the NAACP. (The ACC thought the NAACP had signed off on the Myrtle Beach site for the baseball tournaments; it hadn't.)

And it isn't an accident that the NCAA hasn't brought its lucrative men's basketball tournament to Columbia and the university's $64 million, 18,000-seat Colonial Life Arena, which opened in 2002 and would be a nice fit for a first- and second-round venue.

"It's like they're holding the state economically hostage," Burbage said of the NAACP-organized boycott. "I don't understand why an athletic conference has to get involved in the internal affairs of state politics. We're good people in this state. It's not like you're going to come into South Carolina and we're going to hurt an athlete, endanger your lives in any way."

But the NAACP isn't holding the state hostage -- just accountable. Big difference.

Spurrier received death threats after saying the Confederate flag shouldn't be anywhere near the state Capitol.

What? First I've heard that...

So did at least one member of his staff.

Again... what...?

The memories of the hate mail and the threatening phone calls won't soon be forgotten in the South Carolina football offices at Williams-Brice Stadium.

Randolph was aware of what happened. When told of Spurrier's death threats, he said, "Yes, he did [receive some]. They come quite often."

How does LR know... and they're still happening!!!???

That flag continues to leave bruise marks on the university. Start with South Carolina's athletic department, which is the primary owner and operator of the Colonial Life Arena (no NCAA tournaments). And this being the hyperintense SEC, you can bet some rival recruiters use the flag controversy to their advantage. At the very least, it must cause some recruits to think twice about signing with the Gamecocks.

"It hurts basketball," Randolph said. "It hurts football immensely. We do get calls and letters from parents saying, 'I wouldn't want my child to go there.'"

The Confederate flag, moved to the monument in 2000, isn't going anywhere without legislation. And according to subsection B of state code 1-10-10, any bill involving the flag's removal would require a two-thirds supermajority of the general assembly for passage. Most legislation in South Carolina usually needs just a simple majority to become law.

Coincidence? Of course not.

But Burbage, who honors that flag for its historical value, and others who honor it for far more offensive reasons should remember that even the legendary Strom Thurmond, who represented South Carolina as a United States senator for nearly 50 years (and who was no civil rights progressive), supported its removal from the state Capitol dome.

"Unfortunately, the presence of the battle flag over the Capitol has moved past its intended purpose of paying tribute to those who served South Carolina during the Civil War," wrote Thurmond in a 1996 letter to then-Gov. David Beasley. He added that the flag's removal was "not a slap toward those who wish to celebrate our past."

So, there is hope, right? Just move the Confederate flag off the state Capitol grounds to another appropriate monument or museum, and the boycott and controversy will end.

"Absolutely," said Randolph. "Instantaneously."

"No," countered Burbage, "we're not willing to compromise anymore. Not willing to back up anymore. Because we're not giving up."

Some things never change -- even though they should.

Gene Wojciechowski is the senior national columnist for ESPN.com. You can contact him at gene.wojciechowski@espn3.com. Hear Gene's podcasts and ESPN Radio appearances by clicking here.

Fwd: Immediate Action: Mount Pleasant War Memorial Dedication

2009-06-30T09:02:00.001-04:00

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From: Howard Chalmers <chalmers.scv@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Subject: Immediate Action: Mount Pleasant War Memorial Dedication
To: randtyork@earthlink.net

Compatriots of the South Carolina Division,

Last minute update - details just received!

We need your help in Mt. Pleasant this coming Sunday evening, July 5!

We have a unique opportunity to honor our ancestors by participating in the dedication of the "Mount Pleasant War Memorial", a monument dedicated to the men from Mount Pleasant who died during our nation's various conflicts. There are 74 names inscribed on a monument in the new Mt. Pleasant Waterfront Memorial Park. 40 of those names are Confederate Veterans.

Moultrie Camp members will be placing a wreath honoring the veterans of the Cause for Southern Independence, all denoted by "CSA" following their names. Speakers include Senator Lindsay Graham, current town and military leaders, and Medal of Honor recipients.The Marine Corps Band from Parris Island will be in attendance, and select members of the Palmetto Battalion will be firing infantry and artillery salutes during the ceremony.

We need to show the leaders of Mount Pleasant and South Carolina that the Sons of Confederate Veterans takes our Charge seriously and performs our duty with dignity. They should have no doubt that we will both defend the Confederate Soldier's good name and guard his history.

The monument dedication will be THIS SUNDAY, July 5, at 6:30pm, at the Waterfront Park. The park can be reached either by Wingo Way or Patriots Point Blvd. Here is a link to a map of the area. Dress is Coat and Tie for SCV Members. Make sure to wear your SCV lapel pin so everyone knows we're there!

Contact 10th Brigade Commander Jeff Antley at 843.478.0516 or SC Division Adjutant Howard Chalmers at 843.568.4973 for more information.

Commanders, please forward this message to your camps.

For the men who wore the gray,

Jeff Antley

10th Brigade Commander

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Fwd: 2010 S.C. Division Convention Notice

2009-06-22T17:12:00.001-04:00

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Compatriots of the South Carolina Division,

The Pee Dee Rifles would like to invite you and your families to join us in Florence on March 26-27 for the 2010 South Carolina Division Convention as we begin the Sesquicentennial anniversary of the Cause for Southern Independence.

Make plans now to attend!

We have an exciting program planned, and the South Carolina Division will be holding elections.

Please visit our website for details, directions and registration forms.

For questions about the convention, please contact Convention Chairman Ron York at scscv2010@gmail.com.

Commanders, please forward this message to your camps.

Deo Vindice,

Ron York Commander

Pee Dee Rifles, Camp 1419

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2009-06-22T17:11:00.000-04:00

Compatriots of the South Carolina Division,

Make plans now to attend!

We have an exciting program planned, and the South Carolina Division will be holding elections.

Please visit our website for details, directions and registration forms.

For questions about the convention, please contact Convention Chairman Ron York at scscv2010@gmail.com.

Commanders, please forward this message to your camps.

Deo Vindice,

Ron York Commander

Pee Dee Rifles, Camp 1419

Host 2010 SC SCV Div Convention

http://www.peedeerifles.homestead.com

Meeting Reminder

2009-06-22T06:24:00.001-04:00

Gentlemen,

Just a reminder that the Pee Dee Rifles meet tomorrow night - Tuesday, June 23rd (4th Tuesday) at Shoney near Magnolia Mall. The meeting time is 7pm and our guest speaker is Joe Thompson who has a very interesting program lined up for us.

See you tomorrow night!

Ron

* Latta Confederate Memorial Service - Sunday May 31st - 3PM *

2009-05-28T20:02:00.001-04:00

Gentlemen and Commanders:

This is a reminder that the new Latta SCV Camp Col. E. T. Stackhouse is holding its first CMD event this Sunday May 31 at 3PM at the Veterans Park on Main Street. This is the last CMD in the SCV Division this year. Don't miss this inaugural event. Division Commander Randy Burbage is out guest speaker. I have already heard from several camp commanders and I look forward to seeing you there. The new Stafford Militia will be the honor guard. Refreshments will be served. We are unveiling our new camp banner and camp flag.

Deus Patria et Familia,

Donnie Hayes, Commander

7th Brigade SC SCV ANV

Meeting Reminder

2009-05-25T18:05:00.001-04:00

*** Meeting Reminder***

The Pee Dee Rifles will meet tomorrow night (Tuesday, May 26th) at 7pm at Shoneys - Magnolia Mall.

Happy Memorial Day

Ron York

Commander

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2009-05-21T22:09:00.000-04:00

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Gentlemen and Commanders:

CALLING ALL ABLE BODIED MEN

GENERAL LEE'S HOME UNDER ATTACK

FORCES NEEDED JUNE 7, 2009 AT 3PM CONFEDERATE MONUMENT- ARLINGTON

Please read first volly and send to your camps.

Donnie Hayes, Commander

7th Brigade SC SCV ANV

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Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 01:07:31 +0000

Committee Members,

I draw your attention to the latest from our enemies...

http://hnn.us/articles/85884.html

George Mason University's History News Network

5-19-09

Dear President Obama: Please Don't Honor the Arlington Confederate Monument

By Edward Sebesta and James Loewen

This letter was written by Edward Sebesta and James Loewen and signed by the scholars listed below.

May 18, 2009

President Barack H. Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama:

Since the administration of Woodrow Wilson, presidents have sent annually a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument. Prior to the administration of George H. W. Bush, this was done on or near the birthday of Jefferson Davis. Starting with George H.W. Bush, it has been done on Memorial Day.

We ask you to not send a wreath or some other commemorative token to the Arlington Confederate Monument during your administration or after.

There are several reasons as to why this monument, a product of the Nadir in American race relations, should not be honored, and we list and explain them in this letter.

The monument was intended to legitimize secession and the principles of the Confederacy and glorify the Confederacy. It isn't just a remembrance of the dead. The speeches at its ground-breaking and dedication defended and held up as glorious the Confederacy and the ideas behind it and stated that the monument was to these ideals as well as the dead. It was also intended as a symbol of white nationalism, portrayed in opposition to the multiracial democracy of Reconstruction, and a celebration of the re-establishment of white supremacy in the former slave states by former Confederate soldiers. In its design it also tells wrong history, boasting fourteen shields with the coat of arms of fourteen states. Thus it claims that Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland were part of the Confederacy. They weren't.

The monument was given to the Federal Government by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), which raised the funds to erect it. The UDC's reasons for the monument are instructive. In the address of Mrs. Daisy McLaurin Stevens, President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at its dedication, she makes clear that the monument is to glorify the ideas of the Confederacy:

Great ideas and righteous ideas are alone immortal. The eternal years of God are theirs. The ideas our heroes cherished were and are beneficial as they are everlasting. These were living then; they are living to-day and shall live to-morrow and work the betterment of mankind. Thus our heroes are of those who, though dead, still toil for man through the arms and brains of those their examples have inspired and quickened to nobler things.

Since the United Daughters of the Confederacy upheld in multiple publications in the early 20th Century that the Ku Klux Klan was the heroic effort of the Confederate soldier, we have an idea what the "noble past" and "ideas our heroes cherished" were. Of course one of these "ideas" was secession to preserve the institution of African slavery.

Likewise General Bennett H. Young, Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans also defends the cause of the Confederate soldier, the neo-Confederate cause of their descendants, and defends secession in his speech as follows:

At this hour I represent the survivors of the Southern army. Though this Confederate monument is erected on Federal ground, which makes it unusual and remarkable, yet the men from whom I hold commission would only have me come without apologies or regrets from the past. Those for whom I speak gave the best they had to their land and country. They spared no sacrifice and no privation to win for the Southland national independence.

I am sure I shall not offend the proprieties of either the hour of the occasion when I say that we still glory in the records of our beloved and immortal dead. The dead for whom this monument stands sponsor died for what they believed to be right. Their surviving comrades and their children still believe that that for which they suffered and laid down their lives was just; that their premises in the Civil War were according to our Constitution….

The sword said the South was wrong, but the sword is not necessarily guided by conscience or reason. The power of numbers and the longest guns cannot destroy principle nor obliterate truth. Right lives forever, it survives battles, failures, conflicts, and death. There is no human power, however mighty, that can in the end annihilate truth.

In fact, most white Southerners in 1914 agreed that both slavery and secession were wrong. Not Young. No apologies. No regrets -- despite the historical record of Confederate soldiers having committed racial atrocities of massacring surrendered African American soldiers on at least eight occasions.

Hilary A. Herbert, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Arlington Confederate Monument Association, makes it clear that the monument stands for the legitimacy of secession, in opposition to Reconstruction, and for white supremacy. In his History of The Arlington Confederate Monument at Arlington, Virginia, he writes:

In 1867 the seceding States were subjected to the horrors of Congressional Reconstruction, but in a few years American manhood had triumphed; Anglo-Saxon civilization had been saved; local self-government under the Constitution had been restored; ex-Confederates were serving the National Government, and true patriots, North and South, were addressing themselves to the noble task of restoring fraternal feeling between the sections.

Within a generation after Congressional Reconstruction, American historians condemned it …. as "a crime against civilization," and public opinion seems to have approved the verdict.

Herbert goes on to refer to the Confederate soldiers who joined the Ku Klux Klan and Red Shirts as being heroes for restoring white supremacy and overthrowing Reconstruction, referring to "the soldiers who fought the battles of the Confederacy and … by their courage and devotion during the two decades after the war, were saviors of Anglo-Saxon civilization in their section."

The monument itself has a Latin motto, "Victrix causea Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni." It translates, "The winning cause pleased the Gods, but the losing cause pleased Cato." This is a classical reference which to the cognoscenti implies that Lincoln was a despot and the Union cause unjust; Cato, the stoic believer in "freedom," would have sided with the Confederacy.

The Arlington Confederate Monument is a denial of the wrong committed against African Americans by slave owners, Confederates, and neo-Confederates, through the monument's denial of slavery as the cause of secession and its holding up of Confederates as heroes. This implies that the humanity of Africans and African Americans is of no significance.

Today, the monument gives encouragement to the modern neo-Confederate movement and provides a rallying point for them. The modern neo-Confederate movement interprets it as vindicating the Confederacy and the principles and ideas of the Confederacy and their neo-Confederate ideas. The presidential wreath enhances the prestige of these neo-Confederate events.

Fr. Alister C. Anderson, as Chaplain-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), at the 85th anniversary of the dedication of the Arlington Confederate Monument in 1999, gave a lengthy speech explaining its meaning. His understanding of the Arlington Confederate Monument can be said to be fairly representative of modern neo-Confederate opinion.

Anderson believes that the Civil War was a holy war between an orthodox Christian nation (the South), a view widespread in the neo-Confederate movement, and what he feels was an un-Christian and heretical North, as he explained in a series of articles in the Confederate Veteran as Chaplain-in-Chief of the SCV. This explains some of the passages of his speech at the Arlington Confederate Monument. In his speech Anderson explains regarding the monument:

… It reveals and concentrates in beautiful, rugged bronze nearly every idea that a true Southern historian, theologian, statesman, and patriotic citizen could present about the religion, culture, morals, economics, and politics of a civilization from out of which the Confederate States of America evolved. The monument captures the ideals and accomplishments that still existed at the end of the War for Southern Independence. Thank God it does not depict the beginning of the Reconstruction Era, the most disgusting and destructive period in United States history from which the South has never really recovered.

Anderson goes on to note Washington's presence in bronze:

It depicts George Washington on horseback with the Latin inscription DEO VINDICE, which means, "God Vindicates." Southerners believed under the Constitution they had the right to secede if they were being harmed by a tyrannical government.

To Anderson, as to other neo-Confederates today, the Arlington Monument exists to glorify the ideas of the Confederacy, which he sees as the ideas of the neo-Confederacy.

Anderson goes on to explain, correctly, the meaning of the main inscription on the monument, "Victrix causea Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni." This is a line from a poem Pharasalia by the Roman poet Lucan, used to represent Lincoln as a tyrant and the North as tyrannical. Fr. Anderson explains:

Victix causa, "the winning cause (or side)", referring to Julius Caesar's inordinate ambition and his lust for total power and control, is compared with President Lincoln and the Federal Government's desire and power to crush and destroy the South. Next we read diis placuit which translates "pleased the gods." In this context, gods are with a small "g" and refer to the gods of mythology; the gods of money, power, war and domination, greed, hate, lust and ambition. Next we come to the noble climax of this quotation, sed victa cantoni which translates "but the losing side (or cause) pleased Cato". Here Lucan, the poet, refers to Pompey's fight to retain the old conservative, traditional republican government of Rome. Even though Pompey was defeated by Caesar's greater military power, his defeat, nevertheless, pleased the noble Cato. And here, of course, Cato represents the noble aims of the Southern Confederacy. The South fought politically to maintain the Constitution which had guided her safely for eighty-seven years. She merely wanted to be left alone and governed by it. The aggression-minded totalitarian Northern government would not permit that and so she pleased the gods of abolitionism, transcendentalism, utopianism, state centralism, universalism, rationalism and a host of other "isms."

Anderson here denounces abolition, the anti-slavery movement that ultimately led the United States of America out of the moral evil of slavery, as an evil itself.

Sending a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Memorial Monument enhances the prestige of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization with a long history of racism from praising the Ku Klux Klan in the early part of the 20th century, to publishing articles against the Civil Rights movement in the Civil Rights Era, to promoting neo-Confederacy today. When the president of the United States of America enhances the prestige of this monument and of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, he strengthens a group working to set back America's progress in race relations.

Finally, in 2009, the main speaker for the annual observance at the Arlington Confederate Memorial is Ron Maxwell, director of the movie "Gods and Generals," whose neo-Confederate meaning he made clear in an interview in Southern Partisan. He also has written expressing his fear of Hispanic immigration leading to civil war in the notoriously racist Chronicles magazine, the organ of the ultra-right Rockford Foundation.

For the president of the United States of America to send a wreath to the monument this year would contribute to providing Ron Maxwell with a more prestigious setting for his speech. It would aid and abet the ongoing use of presidential prestige and this monument for their neo-Confederate agenda.

We ask you to break this chain of racism stretching back to Woodrow Wilson, and not send a wreath or other token of esteem to the Arlington Confederate Monument. This monument should not be elevated in prestige above other monuments by a presidential wreath.

Sincerely yours,

Last Name First Name Institution Biographical Information (for identification purposes only)

Alexander Shawn Leigh Langston Hughes Center, Kansas University Assistant Professor African and African American Studies, Interim Director, Langston Hughes Center

Attie Jeanie Long Island University Associate Professor of History

Ayers Bill University of Illinois, Chicago Professor of Education

Barber David University of Tennessee, Martin Assistant Professor of History

Blakely Allison Boston University Professor of European and Comparative History; George and Joyce Wein Professor of African American Studies.

Bridges Roger D. Rutherford .B. Hayes Presidential Center Executive Director Emeritus

Brown Joshua The City University of New York Executive Director American Social History Project/ Center for Media and Learning, Professor of History, Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Center.

Burton Orville Vernon Coastal Carolina University Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University. Formerly he was Director of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (ICHASS) at the University of Illinois, where he is Professor of History, African American Studies, and Sociology. He is also a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where he is Associate Director of Humanities and Social Sciences. In addition, he is Executive Director of the College of Charleston's Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World.

Christie Thomas Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, Nebraska Multicultural Administrator

Davis Simone Mt. Holyoke College Professor of English

Ewert George Former Director of the Museum of Mobile

Farley Jonathan Institute fur Algebra Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz Teaching and Research Fellow

Fellman Gordon Brandeis University Professor of Sociology

Fink Leon University of Illinois, Chicago Distinguished Professor. Director of WRGUW (Graduate Concentration in the History of Work, Race, and Gender in the Urban World)
Department of History

Finkelman Paul Albany Law School President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law

Gundaker Grey College of William & Mary Professor of Anthropology

Hague Euan DePaul University, Chicago Professor of Cultural Geography, editor of "Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction."

Hayes-Bautista David E School of Medicine, UCLA Author of numerous articles on Calfornia Hispanic history

Hicks David Virginia Tech Associate Professor of History and Social Science Education

Jackson Kenneth T. Columbia University, NYC Professor of History and Social Sciences

Jennings Matt H. Macon State College Student

Katznelson Ira Columbia University, NYC Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History

Kennedy Roger G. National Museum of American History (ret.), National Park Service (ret.) Director Emeritus, National Museum of American History, Former Director, National Park Service

Key Barclay Western Illinois University Assistant Professor of African-American History

Key DeWayne Mars Hill Bible School, Florence, Alabama

Knapp Peter Villanova University Professor of Sociology

Leib Jonathan Old Dominion University Associate Professor of Geography

Loewen James Univ. of Vermont Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Univ. of Vermont; author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me," "Lies Across America," "Sundown Towns," etc.

Love David, A. Commentator Columnist at www.blackcommentator.com

McPherson James Princeton University Professor of History

Miller Willaim Lee Univ. of Virginia

Mitchell Don Syracuse University Professor of Geography

Mizell Linda University of Colorado at Boulder Assistant Professor, School of Education

Murray Paul Siena College Professor of Sociology

Nieto Sonia University of Massachusetts at Amherst Professor Emerita, Language, Literary, and Culture

Owens Deirdre Cooper University of Mississippi Assistant Professor of History

Parenti Michael On advisory boards of Independent Progressive Politics Network, Education Without Borders, the Jasenovic Foundation, New Political Science, and Nature, Society and Thought. Author of many books in political science.

Phillips Michael Collin College, Plano, Texas History Professor, Author of "White Metropolis"

Roisman Florence W. Indiana University School of Law William F. Harvey Professor of Law

Schmeeckle Maria Illinois State University Associate Professor of Sociology

Sebesta Edward H. Independent researcher. Editor of "Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction," University of Texas Press.

Shabazz Amilcar University of Massachusetts at Amherst Professor and Chair of the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies

Sinha Manisha University of Massachusetts at Amherst Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies and History

Sleeter Christine California State University Monterey Bay Professor Emerita, College of Professional Studies

Sowa Maureen Bristol Community College Professor of History

Webster Gerald Raymond University of Wyoming Chair, Department of Geography

White George, Jr. York College, CUNY Assistant Professor of History

Wiener Jon University of California, Irvine; The Nation Magazine Contributing Editor at "The Nation"; Professor of History at UC-Irvine.

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2009-05-21T22:08:00.001-04:00

Gentlemen and Commanders:

CALLING ALL ABLE BODIED MEN

GENERAL LEE'S HOME UNDER ATTACK

FORCES NEEDED JUNE 7, 2009 AT 3PM CONFEDERATE MONUMENT- ARLINGTON

Please read first volly and send to your camps.

Donnie Hayes, Commander

7th Brigade SC SCV ANV

Committee Members,

I draw your attention to the latest from our enemies...

http://hnn.us/articles/85884.html

George Mason University's History News Network

5-19-09

Dear President Obama: Please Don't Honor the Arlington Confederate Monument

By Edward Sebesta and James Loewen

This letter was written by Edward Sebesta and James Loewen and signed by the scholars listed below.

May 18, 2009

President Barack H. Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama:

Since the administration of Woodrow Wilson, presidents have sent annually a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument. Prior to the administration of George H. W. Bush, this was done on or near the birthday of Jefferson Davis. Starting with George H.W. Bush, it has been done on Memorial Day.

We ask you to not send a wreath or some other commemorative token to the Arlington Confederate Monument during your administration or after.

There are several reasons as to why this monument, a product of the Nadir in American race relations, should not be honored, and we list and explain them in this letter.

The monument was intended to legitimize secession and the principles of the Confederacy and glorify the Confederacy. It isn't just a remembrance of the dead. The speeches at its ground-breaking and dedication defended and held up as glorious the Confederacy and the ideas behind it and stated that the monument was to these ideals as well as the dead. It was also intended as a symbol of white nationalism, portrayed in opposition to the multiracial democracy of Reconstruction, and a celebration of the re-establishment of white supremacy in the former slave states by former Confederate soldiers. In its design it also tells wrong history, boasting fourteen shields with the coat of arms of fourteen states. Thus it claims that Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland were part of the Confederacy. They weren't.

The monument was given to the Federal Government by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), which raised the funds to erect it. The UDC's reasons for the monument are instructive. In the address of Mrs. Daisy McLaurin Stevens, President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at its dedication, she makes clear that the monument is to glorify the ideas of the Confederacy:

Great ideas and righteous ideas are alone immortal. The eternal years of God are theirs. The ideas our heroes cherished were and are beneficial as they are everlasting. These were living then; they are living to-day and shall live to-morrow and work the betterment of mankind. Thus our heroes are of those who, though dead, still toil for man through the arms and brains of those their examples have inspired and quickened to nobler things.

Since the United Daughters of the Confederacy upheld in multiple publications in the early 20th Century that the Ku Klux Klan was the heroic effort of the Confederate soldier, we have an idea what the "noble past" and "ideas our heroes cherished" were. Of course one of these "ideas" was secession to preserve the institution of African slavery.

Likewise General Bennett H. Young, Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans also defends the cause of the Confederate soldier, the neo-Confederate cause of their descendants, and defends secession in his speech as follows:

At this hour I represent the survivors of the Southern army. Though this Confederate monument is erected on Federal ground, which makes it unusual and remarkable, yet the men from whom I hold commission would only have me come without apologies or regrets from the past. Those for whom I speak gave the best they had to their land and country. They spared no sacrifice and no privation to win for the Southland national independence.

I am sure I shall not offend the proprieties of either the hour of the occasion when I say that we still glory in the records of our beloved and immortal dead. The dead for whom this monument stands sponsor died for what they believed to be right. Their surviving comrades and their children still believe that that for which they suffered and laid down their lives was just; that their premises in the Civil War were according to our Constitution….

The sword said the South was wrong, but the sword is not necessarily guided by conscience or reason. The power of numbers and the longest guns cannot destroy principle nor obliterate truth. Right lives forever, it survives battles, failures, conflicts, and death. There is no human power, however mighty, that can in the end annihilate truth.

In fact, most white Southerners in 1914 agreed that both slavery and secession were wrong. Not Young. No apologies. No regrets -- despite the historical record of Confederate soldiers having committed racial atrocities of massacring surrendered African American soldiers on at least eight occasions.

Hilary A. Herbert, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Arlington Confederate Monument Association, makes it clear that the monument stands for the legitimacy of secession, in opposition to Reconstruction, and for white supremacy. In his History of The Arlington Confederate Monument at Arlington, Virginia, he writes:

In 1867 the seceding States were subjected to the horrors of Congressional Reconstruction, but in a few years American manhood had triumphed; Anglo-Saxon civilization had been saved; local self-government under the Constitution had been restored; ex-Confederates were serving the National Government, and true patriots, North and South, were addressing themselves to the noble task of restoring fraternal feeling between the sections.

Within a generation after Congressional Reconstruction, American historians condemned it …. as "a crime against civilization," and public opinion seems to have approved the verdict.

Herbert goes on to refer to the Confederate soldiers who joined the Ku Klux Klan and Red Shirts as being heroes for restoring white supremacy and overthrowing Reconstruction, referring to "the soldiers who fought the battles of the Confederacy and … by their courage and devotion during the two decades after the war, were saviors of Anglo-Saxon civilization in their section."

The monument itself has a Latin motto, "Victrix causea Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni." It translates, "The winning cause pleased the Gods, but the losing cause pleased Cato." This is a classical reference which to the cognoscenti implies that Lincoln was a despot and the Union cause unjust; Cato, the stoic believer in "freedom," would have sided with the Confederacy.

The Arlington Confederate Monument is a denial of the wrong committed against African Americans by slave owners, Confederates, and neo-Confederates, through the monument's denial of slavery as the cause of secession and its holding up of Confederates as heroes. This implies that the humanity of Africans and African Americans is of no significance.

Today, the monument gives encouragement to the modern neo-Confederate movement and provides a rallying point for them. The modern neo-Confederate movement interprets it as vindicating the Confederacy and the principles and ideas of the Confederacy and their neo-Confederate ideas. The presidential wreath enhances the prestige of these neo-Confederate events.

Fr. Alister C. Anderson, as Chaplain-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), at the 85th anniversary of the dedication of the Arlington Confederate Monument in 1999, gave a lengthy speech explaining its meaning. His understanding of the Arlington Confederate Monument can be said to be fairly representative of modern neo-Confederate opinion.

Anderson believes that the Civil War was a holy war between an orthodox Christian nation (the South), a view widespread in the neo-Confederate movement, and what he feels was an un-Christian and heretical North, as he explained in a series of articles in the Confederate Veteran as Chaplain-in-Chief of the SCV. This explains some of the passages of his speech at the Arlington Confederate Monument. In his speech Anderson explains regarding the monument:

… It reveals and concentrates in beautiful, rugged bronze nearly every idea that a true Southern historian, theologian, statesman, and patriotic citizen could present about the religion, culture, morals, economics, and politics of a civilization from out of which the Confederate States of America evolved. The monument captures the ideals and accomplishments that still existed at the end of the War for Southern Independence. Thank God it does not depict the beginning of the Reconstruction Era, the most disgusting and destructive period in United States history from which the South has never really recovered.

Anderson goes on to note Washington's presence in bronze:

It depicts George Washington on horseback with the Latin inscription DEO VINDICE, which means, "God Vindicates." Southerners believed under the Constitution they had the right to secede if they were being harmed by a tyrannical government.

To Anderson, as to other neo-Confederates today, the Arlington Monument exists to glorify the ideas of the Confederacy, which he sees as the ideas of the neo-Confederacy.

Anderson goes on to explain, correctly, the meaning of the main inscription on the monument, "Victrix causea Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni." This is a line from a poem Pharasalia by the Roman poet Lucan, used to represent Lincoln as a tyrant and the North as tyrannical. Fr. Anderson explains:

Victix causa, "the winning cause (or side)", referring to Julius Caesar's inordinate ambition and his lust for total power and control, is compared with President Lincoln and the Federal Government's desire and power to crush and destroy the South. Next we read diis placuit which translates "pleased the gods." In this context, gods are with a small "g" and refer to the gods of mythology; the gods of money, power, war and domination, greed, hate, lust and ambition. Next we come to the noble climax of this quotation, sed victa cantoni which translates "but the losing side (or cause) pleased Cato". Here Lucan, the poet, refers to Pompey's fight to retain the old conservative, traditional republican government of Rome. Even though Pompey was defeated by Caesar's greater military power, his defeat, nevertheless, pleased the noble Cato. And here, of course, Cato represents the noble aims of the Southern Confederacy. The South fought politically to maintain the Constitution which had guided her safely for eighty-seven years. She merely wanted to be left alone and governed by it. The aggression-minded totalitarian Northern government would not permit that and so she pleased the gods of abolitionism, transcendentalism, utopianism, state centralism, universalism, rationalism and a host of other "isms."

Anderson here denounces abolition, the anti-slavery movement that ultimately led the United States of America out of the moral evil of slavery, as an evil itself.

Sending a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Memorial Monument enhances the prestige of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization with a long history of racism from praising the Ku Klux Klan in the early part of the 20th century, to publishing articles against the Civil Rights movement in the Civil Rights Era, to promoting neo-Confederacy today. When the president of the United States of America enhances the prestige of this monument and of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, he strengthens a group working to set back America's progress in race relations.

Finally, in 2009, the main speaker for the annual observance at the Arlington Confederate Memorial is Ron Maxwell, director of the movie "Gods and Generals," whose neo-Confederate meaning he made clear in an interview in Southern Partisan. He also has written expressing his fear of Hispanic immigration leading to civil war in the notoriously racist Chronicles magazine, the organ of the ultra-right Rockford Foundation.

For the president of the United States of America to send a wreath to the monument this year would contribute to providing Ron Maxwell with a more prestigious setting for his speech. It would aid and abet the ongoing use of presidential prestige and this monument for their neo-Confederate agenda.

We ask you to break this chain of racism stretching back to Woodrow Wilson, and not send a wreath or other token of esteem to the Arlington Confederate Monument. This monument should not be elevated in prestige above other monuments by a presidential wreath.

Sincerely yours,

Last Name First Name Institution Biographical Information (for identification purposes only)

Alexander Shawn Leigh Langston Hughes Center, Kansas University Assistant Professor African and African American Studies, Interim Director, Langston Hughes Center

Attie Jeanie Long Island University Associate Professor of History

Ayers Bill University of Illinois, Chicago Professor of Education

Barber David University of Tennessee, Martin Assistant Professor of History

Blakely Allison Boston University Professor of European and Comparative History; George and Joyce Wein Professor of African American Studies.

Bridges Roger D. Rutherford .B. Hayes Presidential Center Executive Director Emeritus

Brown Joshua The City University of New York Executive Director American Social History Project/ Center for Media and Learning, Professor of History, Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Center.

Burton Orville Vernon Coastal Carolina University Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University. Formerly he was Director of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (ICHASS) at the University of Illinois, where he is Professor of History, African American Studies, and Sociology. He is also a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where he is Associate Director of Humanities and Social Sciences. In addition, he is Executive Director of the College of Charleston's Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World.

Christie Thomas Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, Nebraska Multicultural Administrator

Davis Simone Mt. Holyoke College Professor of English

Ewert George Former Director of the Museum of Mobile

Farley Jonathan Institute fur Algebra Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz Teaching and Research Fellow

Fellman Gordon Brandeis University Professor of Sociology

Fink Leon University of Illinois, Chicago Distinguished Professor. Director of WRGUW (Graduate Concentration in the History of Work, Race, and Gender in the Urban World)
Department of History

Finkelman Paul Albany Law School President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law

Gundaker Grey College of William & Mary Professor of Anthropology

Hague Euan DePaul University, Chicago Professor of Cultural Geography, editor of "Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction."

Hayes-Bautista David E School of Medicine, UCLA Author of numerous articles on Calfornia Hispanic history

Hicks David Virginia Tech Associate Professor of History and Social Science Education

Jackson Kenneth T. Columbia University, NYC Professor of History and Social Sciences

Jennings Matt H. Macon State College Student

Katznelson Ira Columbia University, NYC Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History

Kennedy Roger G. National Museum of American History (ret.), National Park Service (ret.) Director Emeritus, National Museum of American History, Former Director, National Park Service

Key Barclay Western Illinois University Assistant Professor of African-American History

Key DeWayne Mars Hill Bible School, Florence, Alabama

Knapp Peter Villanova University Professor of Sociology

Leib Jonathan Old Dominion University Associate Professor of Geography

Loewen James Univ. of Vermont Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Univ. of Vermont; author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me," "Lies Across America," "Sundown Towns," etc.

Love David, A. Commentator Columnist at www.blackcommentator.com

McPherson James Princeton University Professor of History

Miller Willaim Lee Univ. of Virginia

Mitchell Don Syracuse University Professor of Geography

Mizell Linda University of Colorado at Boulder Assistant Professor, School of Education

Murray Paul Siena College Professor of Sociology

Nieto Sonia University of Massachusetts at Amherst Professor Emerita, Language, Literary, and Culture

Owens Deirdre Cooper University of Mississippi Assistant Professor of History

Parenti Michael On advisory boards of Independent Progressive Politics Network, Education Without Borders, the Jasenovic Foundation, New Political Science, and Nature, Society and Thought. Author of many books in political science.

Phillips Michael Collin College, Plano, Texas History Professor, Author of "White Metropolis"

Roisman Florence W. Indiana University School of Law William F. Harvey Professor of Law

Schmeeckle Maria Illinois State University Associate Professor of Sociology

Sebesta Edward H. Independent researcher. Editor of "Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction," University of Texas Press.

Shabazz Amilcar University of Massachusetts at Amherst Professor and Chair of the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies

Sinha Manisha University of Massachusetts at Amherst Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies and History

Sleeter Christine California State University Monterey Bay Professor Emerita, College of Professional Studies

Sowa Maureen Bristol Community College Professor of History

Webster Gerald Raymond University of Wyoming Chair, Department of Geography

White George, Jr. York College, CUNY Assistant Professor of History

Wiener Jon University of California, Irvine; The Nation Magazine Contributing Editor at "The Nation"; Professor of History at UC-Irvine.

Last Name	First Name	Institution	Biographical Information (for identification purposes only)
Alexander	Shawn Leigh	Langston Hughes Center, Kansas University	Assistant Professor African and African American Studies, Interim Director, Langston Hughes Center
Attie	Jeanie	Long Island University	Associate Professor of History
Ayers	Bill	University of Illinois, Chicago	Professor of Education
Barber	David	University of Tennessee, Martin	Assistant Professor of History
Blakely	Allison	Boston University	Professor of European and Comparative History; George and Joyce Wein Professor of African American Studies.
Bridges	Roger D.	Rutherford .B. Hayes Presidential Center	Executive Director Emeritus
Brown	Joshua	The City University of New York	Executive Director American Social History Project/ Center for Media and Learning, Professor of History, Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Center.
Burton	Orville Vernon	Coastal Carolina University	Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University. Formerly he was Director of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (ICHASS) at the University of Illinois, where he is Professor of History, African American Studies, and Sociology. He is also a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where he is Associate Director of Humanities and Social Sciences. In addition, he is Executive Director of the College of Charleston's Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World.
Christie	Thomas	Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, Nebraska	Multicultural Administrator
Davis	Simone	Mt. Holyoke College	Professor of English
Ewert	George		Former Director of the Museum of Mobile
Farley	Jonathan	Institute fur Algebra Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz	Teaching and Research Fellow
Fellman	Gordon	Brandeis University	Professor of Sociology
Fink	Leon	University of Illinois, Chicago	Distinguished Professor. Director of WRGUW (Graduate Concentration in the History of Work, Race, and Gender in the Urban World) Department of History
Finkelman	Paul	Albany Law School	President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
Gundaker	Grey	College of William & Mary	Professor of Anthropology
Hague	Euan	DePaul University, Chicago	Professor of Cultural Geography, editor of "Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction."
Hayes-Bautista	David E	School of Medicine, UCLA	Author of numerous articles on Calfornia Hispanic history
Hicks	David	Virginia Tech	Associate Professor of History and Social Science Education
Jackson	Kenneth T.	Columbia University, NYC	Professor of History and Social Sciences
Jennings	Matt H.	Macon State College	Student
Katznelson	Ira	Columbia University, NYC	Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History
Kennedy	Roger G.	National Museum of American History (ret.), National Park Service (ret.)	Director Emeritus, National Museum of American History, Former Director, National Park Service
Key	Barclay	Western Illinois University	Assistant Professor of African-American History
Key	DeWayne	Mars Hill Bible School, Florence, Alabama
Knapp	Peter	Villanova University	Professor of Sociology
Leib	Jonathan	Old Dominion University	Associate Professor of Geography
Loewen	James	Univ. of Vermont	Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Univ. of Vermont; author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me," "Lies Across America," "Sundown Towns," etc.
Love	David, A.	Commentator	Columnist at www.blackcommentator.com
McPherson	James	Princeton University	Professor of History
Miller	Willaim Lee	Univ. of Virginia
Mitchell	Don	Syracuse University	Professor of Geography
Mizell	Linda	University of Colorado at Boulder	Assistant Professor, School of Education
Murray	Paul	Siena College	Professor of Sociology
Nieto	Sonia	University of Massachusetts at Amherst	Professor Emerita, Language, Literary, and Culture
Owens	Deirdre Cooper	University of Mississippi	Assistant Professor of History
Parenti	Michael		On advisory boards of Independent Progressive Politics Network, Education Without Borders, the Jasenovic Foundation, New Political Science, and Nature, Society and Thought. Author of many books in political science.
Phillips	Michael	Collin College, Plano, Texas	History Professor, Author of "White Metropolis"
Roisman	Florence W.	Indiana University School of Law	William F. Harvey Professor of Law
Schmeeckle	Maria	Illinois State University	Associate Professor of Sociology
Sebesta	Edward H.	Independent researcher.	Editor of "Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction," University of Texas Press.
Shabazz	Amilcar	University of Massachusetts at Amherst	Professor and Chair of the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies
Sinha	Manisha	University of Massachusetts at Amherst	Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies and History
Sleeter	Christine	California State University Monterey Bay	Professor Emerita, College of Professional Studies
Sowa	Maureen	Bristol Community College	Professor of History
Webster	Gerald Raymond	University of Wyoming	Chair, Department of Geography
White	George, Jr.	York College, CUNY	Assistant Professor of History
Wiener	Jon	University of California, Irvine; The Nation Magazine	Contributing Editor at "The Nation"; Professor of History at UC-Irvine.

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