The Naming Commission was tasked to identify traces of commemorations of the Confederacy at military bases and scrub them like the Taliban did to the Buddha statues in Bamyan .
The Death of the Buddhas of Bamiyan | Middle East Institute (mei.edu)
Final Report (Part II): U.S. Military Academy and U.S. Naval Academy
A casualty of the commission is West Point's Reconciliation Plaza
It was the idea of the West Point Class of 1961 . The goal was to celebrate the reconciliation between the North and South.
The Memorial Day Foundation - WEST POINT RECONCILIATION PLAZA MEMORIALQuote:
THE CLASS OF 1961 PRESENTS THIS MEMORIAL TO THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ON THE OCCASION OF ITS 40TH REUNION AND ONE HUNDRED FORTY YEARS AFTER THE GRADUATION OF THE CLASSES OF MAY AND JUNE 1861. WE COMMEMORATE THE RECONCILIATION BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH AND DEDICATE THIS MEMORIAL TO OUR CLASSMATES WHO DIED IN SERVICE TO OUR NATION.
The intent was traditional at military schools and was non-controversial....until now when the woke PC crowd is trying to purge history .
The markers ,as noted by the Commission, depicted “acts and events between 1861 and 1913 to serve as examples of reconciliation.”
Ramseur, was mortally wounded at the 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek.At 27,he was the youngest West Point graduate to be promoted to major general .He had 2 horses shot out from under him before he was struck in the lungs. , Learning of his condition and subsequent capture by Union forces, several of Ramseur’s friends from West Point “came to his side to give him comfort and water. Among them was his close friend, George Armstrong Custer. Ramseur, whose first wedding anniversary was days away, had just learned of the birth of his daughter.Quote:
“Marker 4 portrays a Confederate soldier providing water to a U.S. Soldier wounded by Confederate guns”; and,
“Marker 6 commemorates Confederate [Major General] Stephen Ramseur and two U.S. Army classmates from West Point who comforted him as he lay dying after a surprise attack by Ramseur’s army failed.”
The Commission determined that giving a dying soldier water and comfort were 2 inappropriate demonstration of reconciliation .
Anyway you look at it . The memorial at West Point was NOT commemorating the Confederacy.
]"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
(George Orwell. '1984')
