Quote:Robert Wilkie, former secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) during the Trump administration, told Breitbart News that Democrats are trying to remove words from Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address from the VA’s motto, everywhere it appears.

Wilkie emphasized the importance of this proposal ahead of Memorial Day in an interview on a special edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

The current VA motto is:

To fulfill President Lincoln’s promise “To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan” by serving and honoring the men and women who are America’s veterans.

The motto is based on a specific quote from Lincoln’s Second Inaugural:

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Several Democrats — and even a handful of Republicans — are supporting legislation to rewrite the VA’s motto to remove the pronouns “him” and “his,” ostensibly to be “inclusive of women and LGBTQ veterans.”

According to the House and Senate bills, titled the “Honoring All Veterans Act of 2021”:

The mission statement of the Department shall be as follows: ‘To fulfill President Lincoln’s promise to care for those ‘‘who shall have borne the battle’’ and for their families, caregivers, and survivors.’.’’.

Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) wrote, “I introduced a bill to update the VA motto to be inclusive of women & LGBTQ veterans.”

Wilkie warned that the legislation “will remove Abraham Lincoln’s words from not only the VA headquarters, but from across VA.”

“Lincoln’s words from the Second Inaugural [are] I had called the most biblically righteous address ever given by an American president, [and] were really responsible for the creation of, firstly, a Veterans’ Bureau, and then now, the Department of Veterans Affairs,” he added. “The VA was birthed because of that speech.”

“[Lincoln’s] words were simple, ‘We will care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.’ There are elements in the House who say that that is sexist and not inclusive. The interesting thing is that under the Trump administration, unlike the Obama-Biden administration, we had an 84 percent approval rating from the women veterans. That was unheard of during the previous four years.”

“But this is just part and parcel of a wholesale attempt to destroy the meaning of the American epic. If you can if you can rewrite the past, you can control the present, and President Trump was very clear back when Charlottesville hit that the Confederate statues were really the low-hanging fruit, that they weren’t going to stop there, it would be Washington and Jefferson next, and that is exactly what’s happened,” he continued.

Wilkie said he expected the bill to pass the House, though it faced an uncertain path in the Senate.

He warned of the continued dangers of cancel culture and censorship.

He stated, “We are at a very dangerous point of inflection here, and it’s important on Memorial Day, because of what soldiers fought for, something that I don’t think we spend enough time thinking about. Our country is the aggregation of historical memory [and] religious memory that goes back to ancient Jerusalem, flows through Athens and Rome and into London, and then comes here.”

“We are what our ancestors have been, and to destroy that destroys the very reason that people fight and die and sacrifice to preserve this country,” he determined.

Wilkie described Democrats calling for the rewrite of the VA’s motto as a “woke mob.”

Legislation to rewrite Lincoln’s words in the VA’s motto is co-sponsored by Republican politicians, including Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).

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Republicans in victory 1865: "There will be no celebrating, no looting, no reprisals. These are our fellow countrymen"

Democrats in "victory*" 2020: "We must have South Africa style reprisals!"

Don't they have anything more constructive to do? If that's their definition of fighting for LGBTQ rights, then I remain unconvinced they're actually oppressed.

& Murkowski needs to go!

(06-02-2021 05:51 PM)Bronco14 Wrote:  & Murkowski needs to go!

I have heard (not confirmed) that the Administration just canceled (or announced pending cancellation) most/all oil-leases in the ANWR. If true, that is just an unbelievably harsh slap from Biden’s handlers, directly across Murkowski’s face, after she has done so much to help Biden in the past several months. Again — if true — it will make Murkowski appear weak/ineffectual to her constituents, on an issue that they care about deeply.

This is another example of how there never was a turn over of parties. Democrats have always been the party of slavery, lies and deceit.

Oh FFS, it's not about the LGBQTIAMNOPRSTUV community, it's about the minority of the minorities, the trannies. Why is this administration so hell-bent on appeasing the 5% of the 5% at the expense of everything else in this country? Have we truly solved all other problems that this is what they spend their time on?

(06-02-2021 10:34 PM)No2rdame Wrote:  Why is this administration so hell-bent on appeasing the 5% of the 5% at the expense of everything else in this country?

I really question if they’re 5%. I suspect the truth is more like 2%.

Truly impartial data in this field is rare, so I admit “2%” is just a guess. But so are almost all the other statistics you see on this subject.

Let's see here...

Should I do something the way Lincoln did it?

Or the way of the idiotic morons running things today?

UMMMMM... I think I'll go with Abraham Lincoln.

(06-02-2021 06:35 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  This is another example of how there never was a turn over of parties. Democrats have always been the party of slavery, lies and deceit.

Why do Conservatives insist on living in the past?

If they'd just give up on the politics of 100 years ago or even 10 years ago I might bring myself to vote for them.