John Kelly calls Robert E. Lee an ‘honorable man’ and says ‘lack of compromise’ caused the Civil...

I suspect Kelly’s larger point was that Wilson had given a self-aggrandizing speech inappropriately at a memorial service. He may have been wrong about the question of Wilson taking credit for the building funding versus the name, but he certainly wasn't wrong about Wilson patting herself on the back in an inappropriate way.

Maj John Bell - John, I've yet to see an Officer carry the load for any subordinate and certainly not any enlisted. I'm not questioning your claimed, I'm just questioning the reality of the situation. Just because I didn't want to hump a tripod, barrel, or body of a 50 Cal, someone is not going to carry anything. And like the old saying goes, "rank has it's privileges".

Bottom line is Lee's a traitor and led poor dumb soldiers into war to uphold white supremacy. And what the hell does his education have to do with his comments. Book smarts doesn't equate to common sense.

Cpl Tou Lee Yang - Rank also has its' responsibilities. If your story of the .50Cal is indicative of your esprit dé corps and your feeling of responsibility to your team, you'd have received corrective counseling from senior SNCO's. If it didn't take you'd be afforded the opportunity to try being a LCpl again.

I believe the states held a vote on secession in their individual legislatures so I’m not following your logic.

My logic is the Constitution gives us the right to vote, but it does not give us the right to secede. This nation could not survive as 50 separate states. It must remain united (as much as possible) to survive as a nation. Anything else would evolve very quickly into utter chaos and the downfall of all states.

MSG Stan Hutchison - Do you have a Constitutional basis for your belief that the States did not have a right to unilaterally secede? Because it has been an unresolved debate opened by both Northern and Southern States amongst ante-Bellum politicians until SCOTUS made a ruling in 1869 in Texas v White. Furthermore, SCOTUS left open the "legal" possibility of secession by a consensus of the States constituting the union.

The issue of secession has been argued from the start of our nation. While I cannot point to a specific entry in the Constitution that prohibits secession, nor can you point to any that support it.
The Articles of Confederation speaks of "the perpetual Union" and the Preamble of the Constitution goes further; "a more perfect Union."
I my not-so-humble opinion, I believe our Founders did not support any division of this Nation, at least not enough to place the issue within the Constitution.