Carl Davidson – 5/27/18

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Tomorrow I Visit the Graves; Carl Davidson (KD); Facebook; May 27, 2018.

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“TOMORROW I VISIT THE GRAVES. I did it with my Dad in his last years, and he asked me to carry it on. So I do. When I visit the various cemeteries, I clean up brush and weeds, and plant flowers and, this year, a few perennials. It’s Memorial Day, so all the departed vets will likely have a flag. My family has most them--Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War (Union), Spanish American War, WW1 and WW2, and also Korea and Vietnam. I don’t like to call any war a ‘good war,’ but the first three were just, the next two decidedly unjust, and WW2, in an [sic] least several of its dimensions, also just. Korea was unjust, and not over yet.”

[RWC] Activists can’t help themselves. What began as a nice story about a family’s intergeneration tradition to honor those who died for our freedom quickly turned into “it’s about me, me, me” and U.S.-bashing.

What made any of these wars “just” or “unjust?” KD didn’t say and his followers won’t ask.

“Vietnam was an unjust horror, every which way. I resisted it heart and soul, and worked with draft resistors as well as the GIs who also rebelled. I decided to back the other side, the NLF/DRV, whose cause WAS just. I met with their reps in Montreal and Cuba. They suffered greatly, between 1 and 3 million dead. I figured we here at home were a minority (at first) that stood up for what was left of our country’s honor in a dishonorable slaughter. As for the GIs, they were part of us. and I took up the banner of VVAW: ‘Honor the Warrior, Not the War.’ We had a different attitude toward the ones responsible for it all in DC.”

[RWC] NLF = Viet Cong. DRV – North Vietnam.

“I was never a flag burner or a flag waver. (Actually, very few flags were ever burned by us. We preferred to burn draft cards.) But I was never so alienated from my working-class roots here in Beaver County that I didn’t understand what the flag meant to the families I knew (including my own) and their sacrifices, whatever the just or unjust nature of the wars they were called or pushed into.”

[RWC] Translation: KD tailors his speech to his audience.

“So tomorrow, I’ll make sure the little flags are in order, too. The picture below is a 5th GGrandfather, William Carnegie [sic], buried above Georgetown here in Beaver County, with his Revolutionary War flag.”

[RWC] If you look closely at the picture in KD’s post, you’ll note the surname on the headstone is “Carnagey,” not “Carnegie.” Both spellings are okay and over the years some families changed to the spelling more common today. You may also have noticed the flag in the picture is our current 50-star flag, not “his Revolutionary War flag” as KD asserted. That’s because there are two photos of the grave on Find A Grave, one with a 13-star flag and the other with 50 stars. KD simply mixed them up.

Here are some comments from the discussion thread.

Randolph Shannon 5/27/18 @ 4:43pm: “The American Revolution preserved slavery for 100 years.”

Carl Davidson 5/27/18 @ 4:50pm: “90 or 70, depending on how you count it, but the point is taken. It was a coalition of slaveowners and everyone else who was against the Brits, with the slaveowners in the lead. To be finished, it required the Civil War, and even then, it was reversed by the counter-revolution against Reconstruction.”

Larry Craig 5/27/18 @ 7:22pm: “time to take the slave child blankers off that sacred mountain in SD”

[RWC] LC must be referring to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson on Mount Rushmore (MR) since I’m relatively sure neither Abraham Lincoln nor Theodore Roosevelt owned slaves. That said, since all Whites, except leftist Whites, are born with the “original sins” of racism and White privilege, perhaps LC should nuke MR just to be safe. <g>

Wrapping up, a couple of comments in the thread pointed to sources claiming the first Memorial Day was held by freed black slaves on May 1, 1865. KD made the same claim four years ago.

Carl Davidson 5/22/14 @ 9:39am: “ORIGINS OF MEMORIAL DAY. Most people don’t know the real origins of this day. It was started by freed slaves in the South paying tribute to all the Union soldiers, white and Black, killed in the Civil War. They went to burial grounds an ‘decorated’ the graves, hence the origin of ‘Decoration Day,’ as it was known to earlier generations. Pass this bit of history on over the upcoming MD weekend.”

According to The Center for Civil War Research at the University of Mississippi, no fewer than 15 events/locations are claimed to be the site of the “First Memorial Day,” including Boalsburg (July 4, 1864), just outside of State College.

In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity. <g>