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From: "Ernest Everett Blevins" <>
Subject: [SUVCW] SUV-SUVCW camp Thread from Camp #1881 Fundraising
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 09:38:12 -0500


I was involved in correcting a lot of speculation (better mis-speculation)
on the Georgia SCV email list where I did get quite al ot of flack but also
did find a hidden SUVCW member at large in Georgia who got tired of some of
the really radical ones attempting to beat me up on-line.

I know the Elias Moon commander (who is on this list) did check out the
story becuase word first here was SUVCW-SCV camps merging or something. He
did some research and found the real story about the whole affair as SCV
members with dual lineages (which I include myself) created a SUVCW.

I think a lot more could be done forjoint projects. I know in Georgia we
have some SCV camps that receive the SUVCW with open arms for their
functions. We have participated in living history days for schools and at
least one joint grave dedication where there were Union and Confederate
Veterans in the same cemetery and the SCV invited SUVCW particiption.
However, some SCV groups have openly spared with members of SUVCW here in
Georgia. I think many in the SCV still see SUVCW as an enemy (in part
because we don't defend the Confederate flag they way they think it should
be) but some fail to see the power that could be used for common goals
together such as grave and battlefield preservation.

Its sad that the whole affair killed off a SCV camp. Thanks for the update
on that situation though.

Ernie Blevins
List Administrator

On Nov 30, 2007 7:21 PM, <> wrote:

>
> We are indeed that group of people. We, at one time, actually had about
> eight members who were members of the SCV, SUVCW AND the MOS&B. While the
> MOS&B
> had no problem with the whole idea (and the Virginia Society Commander
> was
> even present at the chartering of our SUVCW camp!), we caught an
> incredible
> amount of flak from, not the SCV e-mail list, but the other thing (the
> Dispatch)
> that was used by many who some might refer to as some of the more radical
> leaning SCV members. I think what took the cake was when we proposed that
> we do
> things, as SCV members, with the SUVCW camp - in partnership - things just
> really went wild then as too many members on the Dispatch started thinking
> and
> saying all sorts of things, which were all ill-informed and incorrect. So,
> in
> essence, when we would do something as members of the SCV camp with
> members
> of the SUVCW camp, it was not so "sinister" as some in the SCV implied
> (the
> "non-affiliation policy" with the SCV got silly at this point as too many
> members of the SCV speculated far too much - I sort of took it more as an
> unwritten "non-association" policy than a "non-affiliation policy) as we
> were
> actually the same people, but with memberships in both organizations (and
> the SUVCW
> members were actually the most active members in our SCV camp!). The SCV
> camp is near dead now because of the whole affair - it also lost about 5-6
> members over the whole ordeal - myself included.
>
> Robert Moore
> Cdr., Camp #1881
>
>
> In a message dated 11/30/2007 6:56:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> Is this the area where members of the SCV camp set up an SUVCW camp about
> a
> year or so ago? I recall it caused quite serious stir on SCV email
> lists
> although it was quite an education for some members who have become less
> antagonistic towards the SUVCW and a few even quite friendly to me
> personally.
>
> Ernie
> List Administrator
>
>
>
>
>
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