It’s probably a good thing there are no Confederate veterans left, as they would likely be denied care by today’s Veterans Administration.To most Americans, the Confederate flag is part of our history, but to the VA, it’s a symbol worthy of erasure and political correctness.
Or more specifically, repainting.
The VA Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado recently commissioned a mural depicting American military history.
It features a solider wearing a gas mask during World War I, as well as a jeep and fighter plane from World War II.
All told, the scenes include imagery from the Revolution to the Iraq war.
It also includes two soldiers eye-to-eye with crossed muskets.
One is in blue while the other is in gray.
Behind them are the Union flag and the Confederate battle flag.
After the mural was made public, a call came to hide the Confederate flag, CBS 4 reports.
Workers covered it with a poster for the VA Medical Foster Program.
“The decision was made that we would have to modify the painting, so we called the artist and asked him to ‘rework’ that part of the mural,” Paul Sweeney, Chief of Customer Relations and Public Affairs at the Grand Junction VA, tells Watchdog.
Sweeney claims the order came from on high..."
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