Confederate Values, Now more than ever!
San Antonio, Texas
April 25, 2010
COMMANDER DON LAWRENCE,
LADIES OF THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY, AND THE TEXAS SOCIETY OF THE ORDER OF THE CONFEDERATE ROSE, GENTLEMEN OF THE TEXAS HOOD’S BRIGADE, THE TEXAS LONE STAR GRAYS, AND THE ALAMO CITY GUARDS, AND GUESTS
IT IS BOTH A GREAT HONOR AND WONDERFUL PLEASURE TO JOIN ALL OF YOU HERE AT CONFEDERATE CEMETERY, IN SAN ANTONIO TO HONOR OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD ON CONFEDERATE DECORATION DAY.
SAN ANTONIO, AS THE HOME OF THE ALAMO, IS OUTFITTED BY THE ALMIGHTY FATHER, AND OUR HISTORY AS UNIQUELY APPROPRIATE TO CELEBRATE THE SELF SACRIFICE, PATRIOTISM AND BRAVERY OF THOSE MEN WHO WORE THE GRAY. THE ALAMO STANDS ALONE IN THE ANNALS OF AMERICAN, SOUTHERN AND TEXAS HISTORY AS THE EPITOME OF AMERICAN DEFIANCE IN THE FACE OF OVERWHELMING ODDS. IT IS HERE, IN SAN ANTONIO THAT THE STANDARD FOR AMERICAN HEROISM WAS SET.
IT IS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO THAT CONFEDERATE COURAGE FOUND ITS BIRTH.
HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, AMERICANS, SOUTHERNERS ONCE AGAIN TOOK UP ARMS TO CONTINUE THE LEGACY PASSED TO THEM BY PATRICK HENRY AND THE SOUTHERN PATRIOTS WHO REVERSED THE DISMAL PERFORMANCE OF THEIR NORTHERN BRETHEN IN THE FIRST WAR FOR AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
ONCE AGAIN MEN WOULD OBJECT TO OPPRESSION AND THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS, AND ONCE AGAIN, HERE IN SAN ANTONIO MEN WOULD OFFER THEMSELVES KNOWINGLY … AS THE SACRIFICE TO CREATE WHAT CAN ONLY BE EARNED THROUGH BLOOD, FREEDOM AND HUMAN DIGNITY, THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS OF OUR CREATOR.
IT IS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO THAT ALL SOUTHERNERS LEARNED THE TRUEST MEANING OF PATRIOTISM. HERE IN SAN ANTONIO SOUTHERN COURAGE WAS FORGED IN THE FIRES OF WAR.
HERE, MORE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN AMERICA, THE STANDARD WAS SET.
DURING THE WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE, ON BATTLEFIELDS FROM GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA TO PALMITTO RANCH ON THE RIO GRANDE, AND FROM GLORIETA PASS, NEW MEXICO TO FLORIDA, CONFEDERATE COURAGE WAS THE ONLY MILITARY ASSET WHICH THE SOUTH POSSESSED IN SUPERIORITY TO THEIR YANKEE FOE.
THE NORTH WENT TO WAR WITH A SUPERIORITY IN MANPOWER, AND TREMENDOUS ADVANTAGES IN MANUFACTURING MIGHT, AND FINANCIAL STRENGTH.
THE SOUTH PLACED ITS HOPE IN THE INTANGIBLES OF AN ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN FAITH, SUPERIOR MILITARY LEADERSHIP, AND THE COURAGE AND CHARACTER OF THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.
THE MEN BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY, INCLUDING SUCH NOTALBLES AS GENERALS WILLIAM HUGH YOUNG, HAMILTON BEE AND COL. RIP FORD PERFORMED THEIR DUTIES AND LIVED THEIR LIVES TO THE STANDARD OF THOSE WHO PRECEDED THEM AT THE ALAMO.
ONE MUST QUESTION, AS WE APPROACH THE SESQUICENTENNIAL, IS THERE SOME LESSON FROM THEIR BRAVERY FOR US IN THE OPENING DECADE OF THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY?
AS WE LOOK AROUND AMERICA TODAY, WE SEE THE CLOUDS OF DECLINE AS DESCRIBED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. WE LOOK AT A ONCE MIGHTY NATION, NAY A SEEMINGLY INVINCIBLE PEOPLE, NOW ON THE VERGE OF DECLINE. NO MORE DOES AMERICA APPEAR THAT SHINING CITY ON THE HILL. NOW WE MEEKLY RESIGN OURSELVES AND CHILDREN TO THE MEDIOCRITY WHICH ENGULFS THE REST OF THE WORLD.
WE SEE AN ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES, A PEOPLE DAZED AND CONFUSED. WE SEE ON TELEVISION A MENU OF MORAL FAILURE AND CHALLENGES WHICH ARE SEEMINGLY AS NUMEROUS AND AS UNSTOPPABLE AS THE YANKEE HORDES WHICH SWEPT OVER THE SOUTH IN THE LAST YEARS OF OUR WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE.
THESE PROBLEMS, POVERTY, CRIME, SEXUAL IMMORALITY, AN INABILITY TO CONTROL OUR NATIONAL BORDERS, AND DRUG ABUSE SEEM AS POWERFUL AND AS INEVITABLE AS THE BLUE COLUMNS INVADING OUR SOUTH IN 1864 -1865. SOCIALISM CREEPS FORWARD CONSUMING HUMAN LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE AND ROBBING OUR POSTER-IETY OF THEIR AMERICAN INHERITANCE.
IT IS NOW MORE THAN EVER THAT WE NEED THE COURAGE, FORTITUDE AND DEDICATION OF THE MEN WHO REST IN THIS HALLOWED GROUND.
IT IS NOW MORE THAN EVER THAT OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH MUST BE OUR SHIELD TO ALL THE TEMPTATIONS BEING OFFERED BY SATAN AND ACCEPTED BY SO MANY NEIGHBORS.
IT IS NOW THAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND OUR PLACE AS INDIVIDUALS, AND AS ORGANIZATIONS IN THE CULTURE WAR FOR WHAT WILL BE AMERICA’S FUTURE.
AND SO THIS CEREMONY TAKES ON A NEW SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE. THESE ARE NOT CEREMONIES TO HONOR SOME PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS, BUT TO RALLY FOR THE CHALLENGES OF TODAY. THEY ARE NOT CEREMONIES TO SUSTAIN A CONNECTION WITH THE PAST, BUT RATHER ARE IMPORTANT MOMENTS WHEN WE STEEL OURSELVES FOR WHAT MUST BE DONE IN OUR OWN TIME, IN OUR FIGHT TO PASS ON THE AMERICAN LEGACY.
IT IS HERE ON THIS SACRED GROUND, CLOSE TO OUR GOD, AND WHERE WE WILL REST WITH OUR KINSMENTHAT WE COMMIT OURSELVES TO THE VALUES, TRADITIONS, AND HERITAGE LONG HELD BY OUR FAMILIES, AND OUR PEOPLE. IT IS HERE, INSPIRED BY THOSE WHO MADE HISTORY, WHO GAVE ALL, WHO DID NOT SHRINK FROM THE CHALLENGE THAT WE RECOMMIT OURSELVES TO BE THE CONFEDERATE HEROES OF OUR OWN TIME!
THANK YOU.
A speech I gave in San Antonio, April 2010. ~ Mark Vogl ~ johnyreb43@yahoo.com
April 25, 2010
COMMANDER DON LAWRENCE,
LADIES OF THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY, AND THE TEXAS SOCIETY OF THE ORDER OF THE CONFEDERATE ROSE, GENTLEMEN OF THE TEXAS HOOD’S BRIGADE, THE TEXAS LONE STAR GRAYS, AND THE ALAMO CITY GUARDS, AND GUESTS
IT IS BOTH A GREAT HONOR AND WONDERFUL PLEASURE TO JOIN ALL OF YOU HERE AT CONFEDERATE CEMETERY, IN SAN ANTONIO TO HONOR OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD ON CONFEDERATE DECORATION DAY.
SAN ANTONIO, AS THE HOME OF THE ALAMO, IS OUTFITTED BY THE ALMIGHTY FATHER, AND OUR HISTORY AS UNIQUELY APPROPRIATE TO CELEBRATE THE SELF SACRIFICE, PATRIOTISM AND BRAVERY OF THOSE MEN WHO WORE THE GRAY. THE ALAMO STANDS ALONE IN THE ANNALS OF AMERICAN, SOUTHERN AND TEXAS HISTORY AS THE EPITOME OF AMERICAN DEFIANCE IN THE FACE OF OVERWHELMING ODDS. IT IS HERE, IN SAN ANTONIO THAT THE STANDARD FOR AMERICAN HEROISM WAS SET.
IT IS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO THAT CONFEDERATE COURAGE FOUND ITS BIRTH.
HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, AMERICANS, SOUTHERNERS ONCE AGAIN TOOK UP ARMS TO CONTINUE THE LEGACY PASSED TO THEM BY PATRICK HENRY AND THE SOUTHERN PATRIOTS WHO REVERSED THE DISMAL PERFORMANCE OF THEIR NORTHERN BRETHEN IN THE FIRST WAR FOR AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
ONCE AGAIN MEN WOULD OBJECT TO OPPRESSION AND THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS, AND ONCE AGAIN, HERE IN SAN ANTONIO MEN WOULD OFFER THEMSELVES KNOWINGLY … AS THE SACRIFICE TO CREATE WHAT CAN ONLY BE EARNED THROUGH BLOOD, FREEDOM AND HUMAN DIGNITY, THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS OF OUR CREATOR.
IT IS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO THAT ALL SOUTHERNERS LEARNED THE TRUEST MEANING OF PATRIOTISM. HERE IN SAN ANTONIO SOUTHERN COURAGE WAS FORGED IN THE FIRES OF WAR.
HERE, MORE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN AMERICA, THE STANDARD WAS SET.
DURING THE WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE, ON BATTLEFIELDS FROM GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA TO PALMITTO RANCH ON THE RIO GRANDE, AND FROM GLORIETA PASS, NEW MEXICO TO FLORIDA, CONFEDERATE COURAGE WAS THE ONLY MILITARY ASSET WHICH THE SOUTH POSSESSED IN SUPERIORITY TO THEIR YANKEE FOE.
THE NORTH WENT TO WAR WITH A SUPERIORITY IN MANPOWER, AND TREMENDOUS ADVANTAGES IN MANUFACTURING MIGHT, AND FINANCIAL STRENGTH.
THE SOUTH PLACED ITS HOPE IN THE INTANGIBLES OF AN ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN FAITH, SUPERIOR MILITARY LEADERSHIP, AND THE COURAGE AND CHARACTER OF THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.
THE MEN BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY, INCLUDING SUCH NOTALBLES AS GENERALS WILLIAM HUGH YOUNG, HAMILTON BEE AND COL. RIP FORD PERFORMED THEIR DUTIES AND LIVED THEIR LIVES TO THE STANDARD OF THOSE WHO PRECEDED THEM AT THE ALAMO.
ONE MUST QUESTION, AS WE APPROACH THE SESQUICENTENNIAL, IS THERE SOME LESSON FROM THEIR BRAVERY FOR US IN THE OPENING DECADE OF THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY?
AS WE LOOK AROUND AMERICA TODAY, WE SEE THE CLOUDS OF DECLINE AS DESCRIBED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. WE LOOK AT A ONCE MIGHTY NATION, NAY A SEEMINGLY INVINCIBLE PEOPLE, NOW ON THE VERGE OF DECLINE. NO MORE DOES AMERICA APPEAR THAT SHINING CITY ON THE HILL. NOW WE MEEKLY RESIGN OURSELVES AND CHILDREN TO THE MEDIOCRITY WHICH ENGULFS THE REST OF THE WORLD.
WE SEE AN ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES, A PEOPLE DAZED AND CONFUSED. WE SEE ON TELEVISION A MENU OF MORAL FAILURE AND CHALLENGES WHICH ARE SEEMINGLY AS NUMEROUS AND AS UNSTOPPABLE AS THE YANKEE HORDES WHICH SWEPT OVER THE SOUTH IN THE LAST YEARS OF OUR WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE.
THESE PROBLEMS, POVERTY, CRIME, SEXUAL IMMORALITY, AN INABILITY TO CONTROL OUR NATIONAL BORDERS, AND DRUG ABUSE SEEM AS POWERFUL AND AS INEVITABLE AS THE BLUE COLUMNS INVADING OUR SOUTH IN 1864 -1865. SOCIALISM CREEPS FORWARD CONSUMING HUMAN LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE AND ROBBING OUR POSTER-IETY OF THEIR AMERICAN INHERITANCE.
IT IS NOW MORE THAN EVER THAT WE NEED THE COURAGE, FORTITUDE AND DEDICATION OF THE MEN WHO REST IN THIS HALLOWED GROUND.
IT IS NOW MORE THAN EVER THAT OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH MUST BE OUR SHIELD TO ALL THE TEMPTATIONS BEING OFFERED BY SATAN AND ACCEPTED BY SO MANY NEIGHBORS.
IT IS NOW THAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND OUR PLACE AS INDIVIDUALS, AND AS ORGANIZATIONS IN THE CULTURE WAR FOR WHAT WILL BE AMERICA’S FUTURE.
AND SO THIS CEREMONY TAKES ON A NEW SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE. THESE ARE NOT CEREMONIES TO HONOR SOME PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS, BUT TO RALLY FOR THE CHALLENGES OF TODAY. THEY ARE NOT CEREMONIES TO SUSTAIN A CONNECTION WITH THE PAST, BUT RATHER ARE IMPORTANT MOMENTS WHEN WE STEEL OURSELVES FOR WHAT MUST BE DONE IN OUR OWN TIME, IN OUR FIGHT TO PASS ON THE AMERICAN LEGACY.
IT IS HERE ON THIS SACRED GROUND, CLOSE TO OUR GOD, AND WHERE WE WILL REST WITH OUR KINSMENTHAT WE COMMIT OURSELVES TO THE VALUES, TRADITIONS, AND HERITAGE LONG HELD BY OUR FAMILIES, AND OUR PEOPLE. IT IS HERE, INSPIRED BY THOSE WHO MADE HISTORY, WHO GAVE ALL, WHO DID NOT SHRINK FROM THE CHALLENGE THAT WE RECOMMIT OURSELVES TO BE THE CONFEDERATE HEROES OF OUR OWN TIME!
THANK YOU.
A speech I gave in San Antonio, April 2010. ~ Mark Vogl ~ johnyreb43@yahoo.com
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