Aug07

mcgowan camp

Our meeting on August 16, 2007 will begin @ 6:44 AT THE AMERICAN LEGION HALL @ 817 ADAIR STREET IN CLINTON. There will be no meal served.

We will be discussing our plans for raising money for our monument that will be placed at SPOTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE, VIRGINIA, please be thinking about ideas to raise $$$$$. We have sent our plans for the monument to the NMP in Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania to be approved and then furthered to the Department of the Interior in Washington, D. C.

The winner of our drawing for the painting “THE BLOODY ANGLE” was won by CARL TILLMAN of the GREENVILLE CAMP.

Gary Davis

Our program for August will feature Compatriot Al Robinson from the Norton Camp in Seneca. Al will be presenting a program on General Robert E. Lee, focusing on his years after the war. Since this year we celebrate Lee's 200th birthday, we should make a special effort to come and learn more about him. It is General Lee's sterling character and virtues we should all strive to emulate.

Our Spotsylvania monument project "package" is just about ready to be sent to the Park Service in Fredericksburg, and probably will be by our meeting date. The monument company has the drawings, and as soon as they give us some pricing info, we'll send the "package". Included will be the architects drawings, a letter detailing the design and features, a letter detailing our fundraising plans, the resolution of support for the project as passed by both houses of the SC Legislature, and a letter of support fro Congrssman Gresham Barrett.

See y'all on the 16th!!!

Robert Roper

There will not be a cemetery workday on our regularly scheduled Saturday following our monthly meeting. That being said, we have so far this month set out six monuments on the graves of Laurens County Confederate soldiers, and hopefully by the time you read this, there should be at least six more placed. Never know when we are out there working... It's no secret, if you want to help, call David Tillman (864-575-2464) or Commander Davis and git in on it. Schedules are flexible, even if our old bones and muscles ain't. We will get it done.

The South Carolina Sons Of Confederate Veterans Division is moving on with a project to register all Confederate graves of South Carolina soldiers. We are in the formative stages of this, and need your prayers for wisdom. This promises to be an extremely rewarding, and sorely needed undertaking that will benefit current and future generations of Southland-Lovin' people everywhere. As details unfold, it would be greatly appreciated if everyone would give their utmost cooperation in making this a successful venture. Our ancestor's burial sites are slowly being attacked by both natural, (time, weather, overgrowth, etc), and unnatural, (indifference, vandalism, development, political correctness, etc.) forces. It is our responsibility, (read The Charge), to ensure that our - your - ancestor's memory is not forgotten. Please participate whenever you can to preserve the resting places of Confederate soldiers---it is what we are supposed to be about!!

David Tillman

War has always been a high cost game. How nice it would be if the dollars spent on war could be used for peacetime uses such as medical coverage and more funding for the social security syatem where all Americans would benefit. In addition to the material cost we have the heartaches, bloodshed and the loss of life. The Government Accountability Office report recently listed the following war machines in Iraq: 24,000 Humvees, 1237 tanks, 3282 heavy trucks, 912 trailer trucks, 536 helicopters and also 160.000 troops. Even to withdraw would take a long time just to move out. Can you visualize this much men and material not including the fuel? It is time we should turn to Micah chap 4 verses 2 and 3:

And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

Let us pray for peace and that the above conditions will come to our troubled world.

Allen Young

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