Wrote to the U.S. Military to stop the Sons of Confederate Veterans involvement with the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps JROTC

Nearly two weeks ago I wrote the U.S. Military leaders and every member of the Dept. of Defense Board on Diversity and Inclusion to not allow the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) to be involved with the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC). It was a total of 25 certified letters with return post cards. 

The letter is online at 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/jrotc-and-neo-confederates.html

Or you can download it from Scribd at this link. 

https://www.scribd.com/document/470706517/Letter-to-Secretary-of-the-Air-Force-Barbara-M-Barrett-asking-that-the-JROTC-not-work-wih-the-Sons-of-Confederate-Veterans

I put online information about the SCV. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/information-resources-about-the-sons-of-confederate-veterans.html

The letter has links to this resource also. 

http://blackcommentator.com/526/526_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html

If that doesn't realize that dealing with the SCV is scary there is provided in the letter a link to this website. http://www.kennedytwins.com/

Obviously if they allow the SCV involvement with the JROTC to continue the entire DOD Board on Diversity and Inclusion becomes a joke. Responsibility for colluding with SCV is now borne by the entire U.S. Military leadership. 

The SCV planning to try to meet with the Dept. of Defense to overturn the ban of the Confederate flag by the U.S. Military. I think my letter will have the Dept. of Defense think twice before touching the SCV with a ten-foot pole. 

https://www.facebook.com/SCVOfficialPage/posts/4585998894747393

The SCV is trying to put on their best face in this press release, but I think the background information I provide shows their real face. The fact that they think they have any chances of engagement with the U.S. military besides the military talking to them solely for the purpose of humoring them and keeping the SCV from being a nuisance shows how out of touch they are. 

The U.S. military depends on recruiting young people to join the U.S. military. Young people, in particular those that might choose to go into the military, are in a large part minorities. They are those what will need the educational opportunitiees that the U.S. military affords. They are the ones who often don't have good opportunities otherwise. 

To these minorities the Confederacy is not an attractive thing and hinders recruitment. Whatever polls might say about public opinion regarding the Confederate flag in regards to the public in general, it isn't very popular with young people who the U.S. military hopes to enlist.

Recruiting likely is not going to be helped when the general public finds ot that the DOD is working with neo-Confederates and are the means by which they are insinuating themselves into public education. Parents are likely to be aghast that neo-Confederates are getting involved with their schools. 

The military also has a huge budget and needs support from the general public and they also need to look to the future as to hope much support they will have in ten an twenty years among a public in which fondness for the Confederacy declines steeply with age. 

The letter mentions that the United Daughters of the Confederacy has a medal they are giving to JROTC cadets also. 

I also mention that I am focusing on this one way of multiple ways the U.S. military works with neo-Confederate groups. I suspect that they will likely be checking into everything they do involving neo-Confederate groups. 

I also think that their strategy will be to end all programs involving neo-Confederates in a hurry before I can make a public issue about it. If they don't, a public campaign will likely get them to end the program and additionally allow me to educate the general public what type of people the SCV are. 

I am am somewhat swamped helping a lot of groups on a lot of projects, but I am making time to work on opposing the SCV. 

Army is considering changing name of Ft. Hood and other bases named after Confederate soldiers.

The Dallas Morning News article is as follows:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/06/08/in-reversal-army-now-open-to-stripping-names-of-confederate-generals-off-fort-hood-and-other-posts/

I did a blog post on this topic back in 2013.

https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-york-times-editorial-against-us.html#.Xt7LxDqeGiM

I reported on an article in the New York Times saying that U.S. military bases named after Confederates should be changed. This was the link to the article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/misplaced-honor.html?_r=0

Of course Barack Obama did nothing as he did nothing in general about the built landscape named to honor Confederates and did nothing about Confederate monuments.

Kevin Levin condemned the New York Times editorial. Here is his blog on it.

http://cwmemory.com/2013/05/25/misplaced-memory-on-memorial-day-weekend/

Note to Mr. Levin. The Internet Archive has a copy of this page and I have a hard copy of this page printed out.

Notice Levin's condescending and olympian attitude towards the author of the New York Times essay and towards myself.

This is my page with the entire history of Levin's doings.

http://templeofdemocracy.com/kevin-levin.html

Renewed call to get rid of army bases named after Confederate leaders

CALL TO GET RID OF CONFEDERATE ARMY BASE NAMES

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/251066-the-armys-confederate-cowardice

I find that this is very helpful to my effort to get the U.S. military to not let the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) to be involved in Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) in the high schools.

West Point Academy historian discusses whether the Civil War was fought over slavery. UPDATE3: This video is still going strong. UPDATE: Found it on YouTube and added in embedded video UPDATE2: It is online two places, total views over 6 million. UPDATE3: It reached 7 million.

https://www.facebook.com/prageru/videos/923232114386312/

 The link above is a link to a video by a West Point Academy professor about the Civil War and slavery. He points out that it was about slavery.

It has been viewed over 5 million times.

I haven't been able to get the embedding to work.

He is proud that the U.S. Army defeated the Confederacy.

UPDATE:

The video has had 200,000+ additional viewers since I posted the link this morning 8/13/15.

UPDATE2: The video is on Facebook and Youtube separately. The total viewership is over 6 million.  Since the lunch hour update there has been 300,000 or more additional viewers to the Facebook video. The Youtube video is climbing also. Post this video on your  blog.

UPDATE3: The total on Facebook plus Youtube has just gone over 7 million. The phase of a rapid increase in the number of viewers seems to be over. I think though that it will get a steady low level number of viewers and it might have a revival in specific parts of the country when there is a local controversy.

CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE IT ALL.

Change.org petition against inducting Confederates in the Florida Veterans Hall of Fame. UPDATE: Names have been withdrawn.

This is the petition.

I just signed it.


https://www.change.org/p/governor-rick-scott-the-florida-legislature-and-the-florida-department-of-veterans-affairs-don-t-induct-confederate-soldiers-into-the-florida-veterans-hall-of-fame?just_created=true

These people shot at American soldiers and they weren't members of the American army and their efforts would have destroyed America.

UPDATE: Names have been withdrawn. Though I think additional signatures would help make this petition a deterrent against future attempts.