Cape G Confederate memorial defaced!! (Poplar Bluff, Park Hills: house, horse, transit)

[Boompa]

Originally Posted by SW Missouri Dave

I have been very fortunate in life in that I have an exhaustive genealogical list that has been researched, with many lines of my family arriving on the North American continent when it was still under British rule. Included in this list of names, are a number of what you would call, and I am proud to claim, 'traitors'. A traitor is typically defined by the victor of any conflict, and while it used to be a term designating 'an individual assisting a foreign country in an attack against a persons own homeland' - today it is more often used by politician's in describing those who disagree with their political views.

I had one 'traitor' die at Valley Forge, had another die at the Second Battle of Bull Run, or Second Manassas. The only difference being one fought for the victor in the formation of a new country, and the other fought for the loser in a similar attempt.

The point of this thread, irregardless of those who would like to turn it into yet another political debate, is that in the case of both my ancestors, right or wrong in my or your eyes politically or morally, and irregardless of whether I or you agree with their choices in life, both sacrificed their lives for their cause and the formation and maturing of our great nation. A monument to that sacrifice deserves our respect.

So a memorial to the SS men who served at Auschwitz would be a good idea?
Slavery is genocide

Besides the OP was about blaming Occupy Wall Street for defacing your "Memorial" based on..............?

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by Boompa

So a memorial to the SS men who served at Auschwitz would be a good idea?
Slavery is genocide

You're deflecting, this isnt the P&OC forum.
Give it up.
BTW, just how long did you live in SE MO?

[GunnerTHB]

Originally Posted by kshe95girl

You're deflecting, this isnt the P&OC forum.
Give it up.
BTW, just how long did you live in SE MO?

He didn't. He used the forum's search function for his occupy protests he cares so much about and figured he'd chime in.

boompa, the OP has quite a history with regards to strange posting. Just fyi. MOST of us know that this is entirely a local issue and that it has nothing to do with the occupy protests.

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by GunnerTHB

He didn't. He used the forum's search function for his occupy protests he cares so much about and figured he'd chime in.

boompa, the OP has quite a history with regards to strange posting. Just fyi.

I've seen him in the P&OC forum, I'm familiar with the modus operendi.
My question about whether he lived in SE MO was rhetorical in nature.

[Cali BassMan]

Originally Posted by kshe95girl

Gunner, not sure if you have noticed this, but you and I seem to be the only posters that are from SEMO, and have any feet on the ground knowledge of it.
Just thought I would mention that.

Hey there distant Cousin, do I at least get historic consideration?

[latetotheparty]

Originally Posted by onegoalstl

What a disgrace. Wonder if it was those occupy Wallstreet yahoos?

Confederate War Memorial vandalized - KFVS12 News & Weather Cape Girardeau, Carbondale, Poplar Bluff

and how EXACTLY does one make that leap??

Originally Posted by Boompa

Perhaps it was Communists, or Muslims, are we burning the Reichstag here?

or stupid kids with too much time on their hands and too little parental oversight....

[ScoPro]

My Mom was born & raised in Flat River (now Park Cities,, I believe) in 1910.

When President Wilson took the US to war against Germany in 1917, Mom's playmates suddenly started ragging on her as "Kaiser kid". Many of the familys of German heritage were run out of town by the intolerant adult citizenry.

Luckily, my Grandpa - a lead miner with a German surname - had married into the LaRose family from Cape Girardeau, so he was spared the rail.

Some things never change.

[jonsereed]

Originally Posted by SW Missouri Dave

The only thing I see lower than some low life, belly crawling coward sneaking around at night, and showing their true bravery by assaulting an inadament rock and desecrating a war monument.....

is someone else using just such a despicable act to start another tirade of history twisting and rambling incoherent 'what if ' nonsense.

ah come on Dave, Onegoal seems harmless enough though misguided to the nth degree.

and you cant accuse him of being bland or politically correct/boring. Plus he creates more traffic on here than anyone ellse with his southern confederate fixation_ he doesnt seem stupid, he will grow out of it eventually


http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQbgaBGAMTShrHYWpeirReOMfhxW49BC EsMju3wbmmbn (broken link)

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by Cali BassMan

Hey there distant Cousin, do I at least get historic consideration?

Of course you do, cousin, I just dont see you here very often that I forget you're under the radar!

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by ScoPro

My Mom was born & raised in Flat River (now Park Cities,, I believe) in 1910.

When President Wilson took the US to war against Germany in 1917, Mom's playmates suddenly started ragging on her as "Kaiser kid". Many of the familys of German heritage were run out of town by the intolerant adult citizenry.

Luckily, my Grandpa - a lead miner with a German surname - had married into the LaRose family from Cape Girardeau, so he was spared the rail.

Some things never change.

Park Hills, actually..........one other thing, the LaRose dit Deguire family were the first settlers of Ste Gen, they had been in Kaskaskia before that, and came down the river as voyageurs from French Canada, before that, Normandy, I am a direct descendant......just an FYI.