President Obama Goes To Africa, Snubs the 150th Anniversary of The Battle of Gettysburg(July 1-3), the Most Important Battle Ever Fought On American Soil

This is the 150^th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the greatest, most Homeric, most important, bloodiest battle ever fought on American soil.

“The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.”

It decided the American Civil War, because the Union, under men like Hancock, Reynolds, Buford, Chamberlain, and the 1^st Minnesota held fast; the fact that they held fast means that everything  President Obama holds dear could be attempted and accomplished.

The Union troops paid full measure to stem the Confederate tide of victory; and the Confederates, under men like Kemper, Armistead, Garnett, paid full measure to try to become a new nation, the Confederate States of America.

There was such an abundance of heroes; the battle could have been transferred, in time and place, from the Plains of Troy.

It is a seminal event in American history. Everything America is was paid for in blood at Cemetery Ridge, Little Round Top, the Devil’s Den, the Peach Orchard, the Wheatfield, and Culp’s Hill. American valor was hurled against American resolve not to yield, the result was monumental bloodletting. All the Johnny Rebs were valiant; all the Billy Yanks were unyielding.

All the virtues were Heavenly, all the results hellish.

Bravery, Courage, Duty, and Honor was all force fed into a meat grinder, resulting in a bloody sausage of shredded limbs, arms, legs, lives, savage dismemberment and death.

“We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.  It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.”   Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

In a super human, almost super natural expenditure, the Army of the Potomac saved the Union at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The United States, in 2013, is a nation divided by class,  Globalization, Women’s Aspirations, Abortion, Gay Rights, Voting Rights, Immigration, the sacred and hallowed ground of Gettysburg, on this 150^th Anniversary, would be the perfect, nay pluperfect place to begin a national reconciliation by noting the common bondage of blood sacrifice we have as Americans. Nothing current, and nothing going forward can be worst than what the men of both sides endured on the Battlefield of Gettysburg.

This is the time, the 150^th Anniversary, and the Gettysburg Battlefield is the hallowed place for our American President to say that, as Americans, we must never hold enmity in our hearts for other Americans, and never contemplate another Civil War.

Alas, our President is not here in the United States taking advantage of this natural period of reconciliation. He is in Africa, doing what? Finding himself, mid the pomp and circumstance of a state visit.

This President can never reconcile America; he is too busy finding himself, at age 51. The President’s comprehension and appreciation of personal courage in the face of risk and personal sacrifice for the sustenance of the Republic is alien to his soul, world view, and value system. From his actions and omissions these concepts are only worthy of scorn, neglect and mockery. They conflict with his devotion to careerism, his Marginal Man careerism. 

He is a Basket Case of Marginal Man neurosis multiplied by more neurosis.

He is in Africa, in this time frame, because he has nothing to give to American reconciliation. He is a petty triumphalist, who has deserted his nation when it needs a commemorative reconciliation.

Why were the good ole days better? Because our Presidents understood the meaning of honoring America, and not from some state dinner, continents away, in Africa.

“For the 50th  anniversary of the battle, President Woodrow Wilson  had come to the battlefield and had given a speech.”

This is how President Roosevelt honored the 75^th Anniversary-

“July 3, (President's Day)
 -Veterans shook hands across the stone wall at The Angle as during the 1913 Gettysburg reunion.
- Attendance for the Eternal Light Peace Memorial dedication was 250,000 (100,000 were "stuck on automobile-packed highways".)
- President Roosevelt gave an address which ended at sunset, the Peace Memorial covered by a 50 foot flag was unveiled by George N. Lockwood and Confederate A. G. Harris (both age 91).”

In 1963, the 100^th Anniversary of the Battle, Navy War Hero Democratic President Kennedy  “stopped at the Eternal Light Peace Memorial, located at the high ground of the first day’s battlefield. …..The President and First Lady drove on, with their guide, down Seminary Ridge, and disembarked at the North Carolina Memorial near the site where many Confederates stepped off for Pickett’s Charge on July 3, 1863. …Kennedy  commented to his guide that he hadn’t known that one in four of all who fell at Gettysburg was a North Carolinian.

The First Couple took a few moments to gaze across the mile-wide field of Pickett’s Charge, The Kennedys drove to Little Round Top, through Devil’s Den, and stopped at the Wheatfield – where the Irish Brigade had fought. … On the monument are the words “Faugh a Ballaugh!” the motto of the famed Irish Brigade…President kennedy was asked if he knew the meaning of the words. “Sure I do,” Kennedy replied. “It means ‘Clear the Way’.”

The snubbing of the Commemoration of the Battle of Gettysburg shows once again that America is in the detritus of its self value. In the Age of Obama, President Obama’s America swears fealty to the values of change for the sake of change, consumerism, elitism, snobbery, and fads, bypassing honor, courage and sacrifice.


That Age of Obama value system, nurtured by President Obama’s lack of leadership in doing the right things to reconcile this nation, cannot allow this Republic to be organically substantive and beneficial to its citizens in its future. 

Cut off by the President from honoring the Glory of our Past, our Republic is rudderless. President Obama is turning us all into Marginal Men.

THE DEAD OF GETTYSBURG

Reconciliation at the 1938 Gettysburg Reunion












 President Kennedy at Gettysburg,100 years after the battle.

An honor guard greets President Obama as he arrives at the presidential palace in Dakar, Senegal, the start of a three-nation tour of Africa during the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg..

 Community Organizer President Obama skipped the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg  for this.