The "with Honor" thread..

**Foreign Fruitcake** · September 07, 2012, 11:57 AM

In 1861, the Colonel Commandant of Westpoint offered that any cadets loyal to the Southern cause, be excused with full honors, in light of recent events. Fitzhugh Lee led the complement of Officer Cadets loyal to the South, out of Westpoint Academy at the march. The Commandant ordered all remaining Union ranks to attention and that the band play Dixie as they march out....

Such is the honor of war.

**Manco** · September 07, 2012, 12:07 PM

So honour equals idiocy and leads to an increased loss of life?

Sounds 'bout right.

**43rdFoot** · September 07, 2012, 12:31 PM

Should have barred the gates and had them brought up on charges of treason.

Union forever. Down with rebellion.

**Foreign Fruitcake** · September 07, 2012, 12:34 PM

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**Foreign Fruitcake** · September 07, 2012, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by 43rdFoot

Should have barred the gates and had them brought up on charges of treason.

Union forever. Down with rebellion.

You can talk... yeah? Love the way you think but no.

**Vanoi** · September 07, 2012, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by Foreign Fruitcake

You can talk... yeah? Love the way you think but no.

But no? The rebellion was crushed. The Confederacy will never come about again.

**43rdFoot** · September 07, 2012, 01:03 PM

You're right. I forgot sedition, mutiny, and desertion.

**Sir Winston Churchill** · September 07, 2012, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by Foreign Fruitcake

In 1861, the Colonel Commandant of Westpoint offered that any cadets loyal to the Southern cause, be excused with full honors, in light of recent events. Fitzhugh Lee led the complement of Officer Cadets loyal to the South, out of Westpoint Academy at the march. The Commandant ordered all remaining Union ranks to attention and that the band play Dixie as they march out....

Such is the honor of war.

The civil war is over. Slaves are free. Federal power takes lead over state power. The end.

We can move on now, it's only been over a hundred years...

"neo-rebels" are just as bad as neo-nazis when it comes to holding on to the past, continuously thinking there is some chance of the "glory days" (which usually are not so glorious, in fact the opposite) returning.

**Ferdiad** · September 07, 2012, 06:21 PM

What the hell is this about.

**Lord Anubis** · September 07, 2012, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by Foreign Fruitcake

Such is the honor of war.

What honour?

**Lуra** · September 08, 2012, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by Ferdiad

What the hell is this about.

I really don't know either.
I think the Americans fought Lazer-Death Lincoln with a Giant Bear or something.

~Lyra

**mishkin** · September 08, 2012, 11:26 AM

In 1995, I escaped of compulsory military service for myopia.

Such is the honor of war.

**~~John ''True Grit'' Wayne~~** · September 08, 2012, 01:14 PM

In a previous life I was a confederate captain,I wore the grey uniform with honour untill I get shot in the penis with a cannonball.
Luckily it dropped at my feet as my balls are as hard as steel.
I charged forward still thinking of my sweetheart in the South her yellow ribbon in her hair.Those good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye and singing this will be the day that I die.
It was glory and freedom I sought and death from a STD that stopped me gallantly.
The south shall rise again wearing daisy dukes and straw hats shouting ''Yehhaw F THE LAW''...........

**~~removeduser_4536284751384~~** · September 08, 2012, 03:58 PM

Sounds like the Wehrmacht officers who thought it "dishonourable" to be present at the murder of untermenschen, yet thought it perfectly honourable to further the aims of regimes capable of such crimes.

There is no honour in war. It is only honourable to those who have never experienced it.