Dear Ms. Lunelle,
As a United States Army Veteran (who was recommended for and served in the position of Platoon Guide during Basic Training by one of the first and highly decorated Command Sgt. Major Marlowe, (1969) with the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, N.C., and whose Platoon was made up of only 3 members from North Carolina, including myself, and the rest from the Great State of Pennsylvania) never did I hear a complaint from any of my men or the other Platoons about serving in a Fort named after a Confederate Veteran.
And afterward, as an Instructor of Basic and Advanced Electronics in the School Brigade, and a member of the Race Relations Council at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey; whose students hailed from every Branch and of all ranks (with the exception of General) never did I hear mention of a complaint about the name of any Base because it was named after a Confederate Veteran.
This leads me to Elizabeth Warren, again, who should have been censored by the United States Congress for lying about representing Black soldiers in a self-concocted complaint against the names of such Bases.
And shame on the United States Congress for violating the Constitution of the United States that we Veterans swore to protect from foreign or domestic attacks as they allowed Warren to introduce a Bill of Attainder on the Senate Chamber floor in violation of the 9th and 10th Amendments.
And further shame on Joe Biden, a professed lawyer and Commander in Chief of the Armed forces for not halting the illegal removal of the Headstone of the World-Renowned Jewish Sculptor Moses Ezekiel; "the Reconciliation Memorial Cenotaph”; clearly an Anti-Semitic Act that Warren knew was.
I call upon President-elect Trump to right this Congressional wrong and replace the Reconciliation Memorial, an American Icon to its rightful place of permanency and prominence at Arlington National Cemetery.
And that his Sec Def appointment Pete Hegseth, and also the Prime Minister of Israel, the Honorable Benjamin Netanyahu to influence President-elect Trump to do so. And along with it, an apology to not only the Southern people, but also to the Army of the Potomac, President William McKinley, President Taft, President Wilson, and all the peoples of America and other Presidents like Obama who either championed or recognized this Memorial Shrine which symbolized a permanent era of peace and reconciliation.
And while he’s at it, put the base names back, too.
God bless you!
Your brother,
HK
Founder, Veterans Defending Arlington
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