HK On The VA, Again

This is the monument to my great grandfather, John Pelopidus Leach who surrendered with Lee. It was erected at the time of his death in 1914 and depicts two hands shaking, one black and one white, with the inscription:
"This Is What He Meant - All Men Up, Erected By His Colored Friends."
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Veterans Administration Hospital

From: hk.edgerton@gmail.com

Dear Rick,

Ironically, as I finished my now daily vigil outside the VA Hospital in
Oteen, N.C.; a jester in support of Sgt. Thrasher, I would receive a
telephone call from Ms. April Thompson of WREG News Channel 3 in Memphis
asking when and if I was going to return to Memphis. I wish that I could
have told her: as soon as the waters recede. However, I would hope that
my Southern family not forget Sgt. Thrasher.

I again found it ironic that the President would be sitting in a room
just last week filled to capacity with Korean War Veterans passing out
Medals of Honor to soldiers that he felt slighted because they only
received the Distinguish Cross. And further passing out accolades to
those soldiers who served the nation during this conflict. Yet Sgt.
Thrasher a member of this elite force who too gave service to this
country during this conflict; lie in his hospital bed near death facing
tyranny from a hospital staff because his only crime was to display a
very small Confederate Battle flag on his bedside table to commemorate
his ancestors during this Sesquicentennial of the War Between the
States.

Never mind that this same Veterans Administration is charged with the
duty of providing the Confederate Iron Cross, (a grave marker ) to be
placed on the grave as a marker, and will not allow these markers to be
placed on the graves of Confederate soldiers buried on their grounds.
Never mind that the Veterans Administration of Tennessee will not
recognize Black Confederate soldiers while the Great State of Tennessee
does, and will not even issue these headstone markers to be placed on
the graves of these Black Confederates. And never mind that the Federal
government has issued pensions to Black confederate soldiers, or
recognized those who spent their final days at Beauvoir, Sgt. Thrasher
just as well be Black because the treatment he receives from the
Veterans Administration in Tennessee is the same.

I spoke the words of MacArthur to Sgt. Thrasher:”I shall return” and I
shall when I raise the funds to do so, and I hope that will be soon. May
God bless Sgt. Thrasher and open the hearts and minds of those who
continue to persecute the memory of those men and women who made an
honorable stand against those who would destroy the Constitutional
Republic that our ancestors fought for and who so invaded our homeland
with the intent of subjugating us all.

The true offense here is that there is no where in the Constitution that
says a man cannot display the Southern Cross because someone purports to
be offended by it or for that reason any flag. God bless.

Your brother,

HK

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