What do the dead know about the living? “For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.”– Ecclesiastes 9:5. The Bible says Robert Holland doesn’t know that he is remembered this Memorial Day 2025. Or, that he is hated by people who never knew him. Or, someday there’s likely to be another war like the one he fought – again, right here in America.
The Holland family in Greenville County, South Carolina were devout Methodists, back when Methodists believed in the Bible. They said slavery was a sin against God. After South Carolina seceded and fired foolishly on the Fort within its waters, Lincoln ordered an invasion to force South Carolina and the Deep South back into what had been a voluntary union. The Upper South and Civilized Indians refused to help with the invasion of other states and seceded. So, the stage was set for a defensive war to start the defending from Virginia.
The very anti-slavery, young Robert Holland volunteered to serve in the 2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment. He was my GG-Grandfather’s younger brother. In one of his last letters he wrote “Maybe if we give the Yankees one more breshing (brushing) out, they will leave us alone.” Shortly thereafter Robert was killed at the Battle of Seven Pines.
A few months later, his brother Daniel Webster Holland named his newborn baby girl Robert Malvina Holland. Not Roberta, but Robert, to honor his young unmarried brother. My G-Grandmother was proud of her name even as she went by “Bobby.” She became the matriarch of a family who kept family reunions in her honor for 70 years after she passed.
Grandmother Bobby’s earliest memory was the terror of being a toddler lowered into the well to hide the handful of family silver from the marauding, thieving Yankee soldiers.
Likewise, decades before, my GGGG-Grandfather John Bowden, who served in the 4th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line, named his first born son “Jesse” after John’s patriot brother who died in Philadelphia in our American Revolution.
Yet, on this Memorial Day there are many who hate the American soldiers who died defending their Southern homes against invading armies. Even though they fought for the same reasons that their ancestors did in the Revolution. To be left alone.
The hate against great American – Southern – soldiers is the overflow of Cultural Marxist hearts.
Today’s Marxists , who I prefer to call “Bolsheviks”, as Human Secularist Totalitarians hate the dead who, as young men, were braver than they will ever be. More devoutly Christian than them. Better Americans and better men.
And better women as well. Like my Great-Grandmother Florence Ellen Maley. She was a little girl, about 8, when the Yankees came looking for her Partisan Ranger brother in West Tennessee. They shot a percussion cap pistol by her ear trying to scare her into revealing his hideout. She never told them anything. Her bravery cost her hearing in that ear for the rest of her life. The Union soldiers, who are memorialized by many, killed their farm animals and pets, took their food, and burned their barn.
Yet, almost half the U.S. disparages memorializing American soldiers who defended their families from invaders in the most insulting and infantile language. That half of America is responsible for an illegal alien invasion of truly untold millions. And they’ve imported over a million Muslims legally.
Someday, there’ll be another war in America between those who “won’t leave us alone” and the believing Christians and Jews who are willing to defend their freedom, family, and faith. It might come after the huge civil war which will sweep across Europe. The great “Jacquerie”.
In that horrible conflict, if the Muslim invaders lose to the indigenous Europeans, the Cultural Marxists in America will demand we accept millions of Muslim refugees. That alone may be the tipping point for another shooting war in America.
Or, the shooting may start if mass deportations of illegal aliens actually ever happens. Or, when the Muslims push too far as the barbarians they are. Act as savages like they did on October 7th in Israel. To be determined.
When they “Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war” again on our soil, the inheritance of American patriots – Robert Holland, Jesse Bowden, and other Memorial Day kin like GG-Grandfather Henderson, G-Great Uncle Maley, et al. – will be to fight and win for our freedom, family, and faith. To be left alone.
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