(A well-reasoned and emotional plea about Arlington from one who has seen the result! Too bad our so-called leaders are already intent and have determined on our need for ‘re-education’…- DD)
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(Alphonse-Louis Vinh, The Abbeville Institute) – Dear Pentagon EIS Committee,
The removal of the Arlington Confederate Monument, a genuinely considered artistic masterpiece, created by Sir Moses Ezekiel, would not be an “environmental” improvement. It is a great historic monument which was dedicated to reconciliation between the North and the South following four bitter war years where nearly 800,000 Americans died, on both sides. There has never been any conflict in American history before, or afterwards, that has ensued so much blood. And all these Americans who fought and died for their cause, should be honoured.
I’m a proud American. My parents were Vietnamese immigrants. Papa was one of the military attachés at the South Vietnamese Embassy in 1956, in the year I was born. I came to Washington as a five-month old infant. Hence, it’s always been for me my hometown, and Virginia, my home state, though now I live across the Potomac in Maryland, which is now home.
Still, the entire Chesapeake Bay region is home on either side of the Potomac. I go back and forth between Washington, Virginia, and Maryland. This is my place on earth.
Moreover, my father became Chief-of-Staff of the South Vietnamese Air Force under President Ngo Dinh Diem. I have two uncles and two cousins who served in the South Vietnamese Army in the fight against Communist North Vietnam. It was a horrible and unnecessary war; a horrific fratricidal war as well as a war of Communist aggression. In the former sense,
I perceive the American Civil War to have been so. Today, as Vietnam is under the full control of the Vietnamese Communist state, the Vietnamese war dead on the North Vietnamese side are justly honoured. They fought bravely for their cause, though my family fought against them. Those men’s memory should be respected. But throughout South Vietnam, it is illegal to have any memorials or statues to commemorate South Vietnamese officers and soldiers who defended the Republic of South Vietnam. Anyone who attempts to honour these war dead will be arrested and punished.Try locating a South Vietnamese flag in public view. It’s persona non grata like the Confederate Battle Flag is today in America.
I am a proud American. But I see things not so black and white regarding the American Civil War, given my own family’s horrible experience in Vietnam.
To take down the Confederate memorial in Arlington Cemetery is truly shameful and…
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