Lest we forget, on this day in1863...

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“Boys, the old flag never touched the ground”​

As dusk fell on the evening of July 18, 1863, about 600 men of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry assembled on a beach near Charleston, South Carolina. At the shout “Forward, Fifty-fourth!” they began to move across a narrow spit of sand toward Fort Wagner, a massive sand-and-wood Confederate stronghold with walls that rose thirty feet high. As they neared the fort, a storm of cannonballs and bullets tore into the blue-coated line. The 54th Massachusetts was a Northern black regiment organized shortly after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Its ranks were full of young men who volunteered to fight because they knew that if blacks helped win the Civil War, no one could ever think of them as slaves again. Twenty-three-year-old Sergeant William Carney helped lead the assault on Fort Wagner. At his side ran Sergeant John Wall, carrying the American flag. When enemy fire struck Wall down, Carney threw his rifle aside and grasped the colors before they hit the ground. As he pressed forward, a bullet hit him in the thigh. He fell to his knees but managed to get up and struggle onto a parapet, where he planted the flag. There he knelt, bearing the colors as the battle raged around him. When the overwhelmed Union troops fell back, Carney struggled back down the earthworks, determined not to let the flag fall into enemy hands. He was shot twice more as he staggered across the sand to his own lines, still clutching the Stars and Stripes. “Boys, the old flag never touched the ground,” he exclaimed as he collapsed. The 54th Massachusetts lost nearly half of its men during the assault, but its courage won respect for black soldiers in the North. William Carney recovered from his wounds. For his bravery in protecting the flag that night, he received the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award. ​

 

[Maggot]

It was a brutal and foolish attack with no chance of victory. Brave men never the less.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Once again, one of my all time favorite movies...

Both sides gave the ultimate sacrifices so "these united states" would become 'the United States'.

Every story from that harrowing time, every account of hardship and struggle, of gains and retreats, and of the men who fought and marched and suffered out there in the elements, are the reason why we today can fucking sit around in the morning, drink our coffee and realize that we do not have to use our amassed lethal force to take care of the attempted marxist takeover of our country, risking all out civil war and societal disruption, because the federal government after all still have safeguards in place that is preventing a foreign funded invasion/coup. (Portland)...

 

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It was a brutal and foolish attack with no chance of victory. Brave men never the less.

What American Civil War attack/battle was not foolish, a waste of life, and an offense against God?

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

What the arrogant/ignorant left doesn’t get is that both the hero’s of the 54th and the rebels they fought against are us. They’re both out brothers in arms, all our countrymen, and none of them were dying for the Marxist politics of these woke morons.

History happened, trying to erase it or feign outrage for things that happened more than a century ago just shows who you are, and pretending you can view it through today’s lens and understand it is the height of ignorance and idiocy

 

[OldSalty]

Thx for posting.

One of my all time fav movies. Just watched it a couple months ago with the boy.

Wells up the eyes everytime.

 

[pmclaine]

And here is the monument to their sacrifice about three weeks ago........

 

[Blue Sky Country]

And here is the monument to their sacrifice about three weeks ago........


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A job for Twitter and tech experts on our side...

1. Collect CCTV footage.

2. Get face shots in clear resolution.

3. ID the faces using social media posts, any accompanying software if software is obtainable.

4. Send results to federal government.

The long and heavy federal freight train seems to be starting up and gradually accelerating now. Gonna take a while for the slack in all of the couplers to even out and the cars moving along at the same pace, but it is getting there...

 

[OldSalty]

And here is the monument to their sacrifice about three weeks ago........


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Well that just fucked up my otherwise anger free morning.