Posted on Jul 16, 2018
I'm running for Senate as a Republican. My Democrat parents are so furious they're backing my...
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One of saddest stories I ever read, a true story, was of a Union marksman who shot and killed a Confederate officer at a distance and discovered it was his own son. Incidents such as this bring home the real tragedy of Civil War. Well, here we go again. And yes, the blood letting has already begun with Antifa thugs attacking innocent citizens for the "crime" of expressing opposing views...
I'm running for Senate as a Republican. My Democrat parents are so furious they're backing my...
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Excellent article CPT Jack Durish - My parents were democrats from the day I was born back in 1957, my Dad has since passed away, but before he did, both him and my mother were fed up with the Democratic Party and they both voted for Trump. This part of the article says it all for them:
"The Democrat party is not the party of tolerance. It is not the party of acceptance. It is the party of intolerance. It is the party of closed doors, but open borders. It is the party of judgement. It is the party of identity politics. And that is why the #WalkAway movement is resonating. Because when you stop and ask yourself why you should be a Democrat, it is impossible to answer if you acknowledge the party’s hypocrisy, since it openly advocates for policies that encourage dependency and destroy opportunity for all of us."
I'd like to share this with the Top Influencers to get their opinion, if you don't mind Jack.
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"The Democrat party is not the party of tolerance. It is not the party of acceptance. It is the party of intolerance. It is the party of closed doors, but open borders. It is the party of judgement. It is the party of identity politics. And that is why the #WalkAway movement is resonating. Because when you stop and ask yourself why you should be a Democrat, it is impossible to answer if you acknowledge the party’s hypocrisy, since it openly advocates for policies that encourage dependency and destroy opportunity for all of us."
I'd like to share this with the Top Influencers to get their opinion, if you don't mind Jack.
Your Next Top Influencers:
1SG (Join to see) LTC (Join to see) SFC (Join to see) PO1 Tony Holland CPL Dave Hoover
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I look forward to all comments. These are interesting and dangerous times and people who are talking are less likely to be harming one another with anything more than words.
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Thank you for reminding us CPT Jack Durish about Federal marksman Sergeant Driscoll who shot his Confederate Officer son at the Battle of Malvern Hill in 1862. The son, exclaimed father just before he died, looking into his father's face. In the following charge Sergeant Driscoll was killed.
My parents were liberal, yet remained British citizens until they died, I voted democrat until the Presidential election after my heart was regenerated by the Holy Spirit and became a Christian.
Since 1992 I have voted conservative which means Republican in each primary and election from local through national. I learned to vote strategically long ago.
I am the only conservative, and soldier for that matter, in my family and extended family who are alive.
"Battle at Malvern Hill
The Civil War could literally tear a family apart, pitting brother against brother or father against son as each rallied to the flag of the cause that captured his heart. There is no more dramatic evidence of this than the encounter that took place on the battlefield at Malvern Hill July 1, 1862. Captain D. P. Conyngham was an officer in the Irish Brigade and described the incident shortly after the war:
"I had a Sergeant Driscoll, a brave man, and one of the best shots in the Brigade. When charging at Malvern Hill , a company was posted in a clump of trees, who kept up a fierce fire on us, and actually charged out on our advance. Their officer seemed to be a daring, reckless boy, and I said to Driscoll, 'if that officer is not taken down, many of us will fall before we pass that clump.'
'Leave that to me,' said Driscoll; so he raised his rifle, and the moment the officer exposed himself again bang went Driscoll, and over went the officer, his company at once breaking away.
As we passed the place I said, 'Driscoll, see if that officer is dead - he was a brave fellow.'
I stood looking on. Driscoll turned him over on his back. He opened his eyes for a moment, and faintly murmured 'Father,' and closed them forever.
I will forever recollect the frantic grief of Driscoll; it was harrowing to witness. He was his son, who had gone South before the war.
And what became of Driscoll afterwards? Well, we were ordered to charge, and I left him there; but, as we were closing in on the enemy, he rushed up, with his coat off, and, clutching his musket, charged right up at the enemy, calling on the men to follow. He soon fell, but jumped up again. We knew he was wounded. On he dashed, but he soon rolled over like a top. When we came up he was dead, riddled with bullets."
References:
Conyngham, D.P., The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns, With Some Accounts of the Corcoran Legion, and Sketches of the Principal Officers, (1867) (reprinted in Botkin, B.A., A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore, 1960); McPherson, James P, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, (1988)"
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/malvern.htm
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Orlando Illi LTC (Join to see) LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Capt Seid Waddell Capt Jeff S. CPT Jack Durish MSgt Robert C Aldi SFC Stephen King MSgt Danny Hope SGT Gregory Lawritson Cpl Craig Marton SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT (Join to see) Maj Marty Hogan
My parents were liberal, yet remained British citizens until they died, I voted democrat until the Presidential election after my heart was regenerated by the Holy Spirit and became a Christian.
Since 1992 I have voted conservative which means Republican in each primary and election from local through national. I learned to vote strategically long ago.
I am the only conservative, and soldier for that matter, in my family and extended family who are alive.
"Battle at Malvern Hill
The Civil War could literally tear a family apart, pitting brother against brother or father against son as each rallied to the flag of the cause that captured his heart. There is no more dramatic evidence of this than the encounter that took place on the battlefield at Malvern Hill July 1, 1862. Captain D. P. Conyngham was an officer in the Irish Brigade and described the incident shortly after the war:
"I had a Sergeant Driscoll, a brave man, and one of the best shots in the Brigade. When charging at Malvern Hill , a company was posted in a clump of trees, who kept up a fierce fire on us, and actually charged out on our advance. Their officer seemed to be a daring, reckless boy, and I said to Driscoll, 'if that officer is not taken down, many of us will fall before we pass that clump.'
'Leave that to me,' said Driscoll; so he raised his rifle, and the moment the officer exposed himself again bang went Driscoll, and over went the officer, his company at once breaking away.
As we passed the place I said, 'Driscoll, see if that officer is dead - he was a brave fellow.'
I stood looking on. Driscoll turned him over on his back. He opened his eyes for a moment, and faintly murmured 'Father,' and closed them forever.
I will forever recollect the frantic grief of Driscoll; it was harrowing to witness. He was his son, who had gone South before the war.
And what became of Driscoll afterwards? Well, we were ordered to charge, and I left him there; but, as we were closing in on the enemy, he rushed up, with his coat off, and, clutching his musket, charged right up at the enemy, calling on the men to follow. He soon fell, but jumped up again. We knew he was wounded. On he dashed, but he soon rolled over like a top. When we came up he was dead, riddled with bullets."
References:
Conyngham, D.P., The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns, With Some Accounts of the Corcoran Legion, and Sketches of the Principal Officers, (1867) (reprinted in Botkin, B.A., A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore, 1960); McPherson, James P, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, (1988)"
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/malvern.htm
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Orlando Illi LTC (Join to see) LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Capt Seid Waddell Capt Jeff S. CPT Jack Durish MSgt Robert C Aldi SFC Stephen King MSgt Danny Hope SGT Gregory Lawritson Cpl Craig Marton SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT (Join to see) Maj Marty Hogan
Father and son meet on the battlefield on opposing sides.
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Doing this to their son... this is how families get split & multi-generational feuds start.
I’d walk away... from my family.
Decisions have consequences... live with it.
I’d walk away... from my family.
Decisions have consequences... live with it.
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