SCV CHAT SEASON 6 EPISODE 11- SCV FIRST

Joins us tonight as MOOSE talks about the SCV FIRST Philosophy. What it truly means, and why it is important to the future of the SCV.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Speakers say had well as you boys talking.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
All across Dix and Lands.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
And you send me up Sammy.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Champing Man, a lot of red train.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
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Speaker 2 (03:27):
Chat starts now like right now. Welcome to CV Chat.
It's Monday at seven o'clock and it is time for
your weekly episode of SCV Chat. I'm your host, Stephen
the Moves, And before it gets started, please remember the

(03:49):
views and opinion expressing this broadcast, not necessarily the views
and opinions of the SUV. It's geeze, nor divisions for
great camp servicesidiaries. How is everybody doing in Dixie lanm tonight?
We have a good show before we planned our I
think so. And I'm right now in the middle of
trying to figure out why Facebook is not letting me

(04:12):
have it posted on our page. So that's that's what
I was doing at the start of the episode. So
my apologies. That's interesting. Ah, okay, I don't know what
Facebook is doing here. Let's let's just see if we

(04:33):
can fix that. Facebook has been interesting this week, all right,
So uh no, don't don't tie it to that event.
It wasn't linked on our page for some reason, so
that's again my apologies. We had to kind of stop

(04:53):
the show. It is for some reason not connecting to
our Facebook page. But I know people are watching from Facebook,
which is even more confusing. So it's a great day.
It's just a great day. For those who don't know.
Just go to suv chat dot com and hit live
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they aren't attacking us for once, but Facebook has decided

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if you want to see the scv chat archive, we
have everything from season two till now in a couple
episodes of season one on YouTube. Season one wasn't on

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first season, but everything from season two onward is on YouTube,
and I highly encourage everybody to please go support us
on YouTube as as we continue to get more strong
and our numbers, we'll probably be doing a lot more

(06:21):
stuff on YouTube simply because it is the number one
app or social media that you can watch this type
of content on. So I do highly encourage you all
to go check us out on YouTube. Just go to YouTube,
type in SCV chat, hit the homepage, scroll down, and
you should see our current live schedule for that week,

(06:45):
as well as all our past videos and all types
of content we post on there. So gues please check
it out. Yeah. No, in ninety one days content we'll
be delete. I'm so happy that we've been streaming on YouTube,
or I would have had to spend most of this
month downloading episodes to put on YouTube, because I still

(07:05):
cannot believe Facebook is just doing away with library content
for that that's content that is stored for everybody to
watch forever, and so it's it's a very annoying and
if YouTube does something similar to that, oh oh my,
oh me, oh my, I will have a very long day,

(07:26):
or many many long days. It would take me months
to get the SCV library, the sebchat library from any
one of our Facebook our YouTube content libraries. But hopefully
as we get stronger, we can prevent that by making
our own library so you can always watch your episodes.

(07:48):
That is that is a down the road project, but
it is good to see everybody. Tonight's topic I will
call it. It's a program I may when I started
going to camps to speak. So it is a twenty
thirty minute long project. So we're going to be killing
a bit of time tonight. But I do encourage everybody

(08:10):
to please stay and watch because I do believe this philosophy,
as I like to call it, is extremely important to
the SUV and its future. And there is the name
is a bit deceiving. I will say that for those
who are worried, this is not about putting the SEV
first in your life. I will explain more on that

(08:33):
in a second though. But it is good to see everybody.
Jason Lloyd, good to see you. Floyd from Camp six
forty eight in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Good to see you. Derek,
good to see you. Robert red Clay, good to see you.
It's good to see all our chat heads. We have

(08:53):
a pretty good crowd on YouTube tonight. Look at y'all, go,
look at y'all. Go. Let's see here. Dennis, good to
see you, David, good to see you. Ah, mister Herbert.
I just listened to your voicemail before going live, so
we will be getting back to you very shortly. Mister
Herbert Aot, Countselman Roy Hudson in the chat. Good to

(09:17):
see you, he said, we got it from it's on
Facebook now, Okay, I don't know what was happening. Facebook
has been giving me trouble all the week when it
comes to posting content. I Camp seventeen sixty five, mister Scottie,
good see in the chat. Past Commander in Chief Jason

(09:37):
Bouchier's good to see in the chat. Oh, congratulate relations
to the Hellum Camp for thirty years. That is a
big achievement. Congratulations to the camp. Past command. Past Chief
of Heritage Operations Ron Kendy on YouTube. Good to see David,
good to see you. I think I already said good

(09:59):
to see Da. Well, it's good to see twice David.
We's good to see you, mister Dennis. Good to see you,
Ay the Lone Ranger Past Comanda on Chief Chuckingmichael on
the chat. Yes it is very pollen. I hate spring
time with a burning passion. A and the most sharp
dressed man in the SCV pass Commander in Chief Paul

(10:21):
Gramlin Junior. If you haven't seen his SUV career episode,
please go check it out Camp seven seven to eight
in the chat Brigade General J. J. Alfred a mooton camp.
Good to see you. Ah, it's good to see you,
Doctor Mitchem. Good to see you, sir, from Camp seventeen fourteen. Al,

(10:46):
good to see you from Camp one five five. Daniel
Brook from Camp seventeen o three in Kentucky, Your commander,
we started on time, so I'm guessing if I click
and scroll down to the most new comments, Kyle might
be here in a second. Oh, look at Chuck Michael

(11:08):
going on to YouTube. Go follow a pass Commander in
Chief and go check us out on YouTube. Look at
that Jason says he's recovering from a great living history
event held in Petersburg. That is awesome. Oh thank you, David.

(11:28):
I didn't know you ran that group. I was just
posting in as many places as I could. Victor Smith
of the Private William Riley Milton Camp reporting from the
Florida Division. Mister Richard Garcia from the Great Confederate State
of Tennessee Gainesville or Gainesville Gainesborough Invincibles, Camp sixteen eighty five.

(11:54):
Good to see mister Garcia Keith, good to see you
from Camp twelve o nine, and Ron has switched over
to Facebook. Good to see you, mister Kennedy and David
from Tennessee. As I said tonight, please don't click away.
We will be talking about the SEV first philosophy in

(12:15):
a second. There's a reason why I'm waiting again. I
made this as a twenty to thirty minute program, but
I've been wanting to do an SCV chat episode on
it forever. There's just no way with the topic, there's
really no way to stretch it to an hour, unlike
the new program I'm starting on social media Mississippi Division. Hey,

(12:38):
but that one is right now at an hour, and
I actually have to trim it down for a couple
of the camps i'm visiting. So it has been fun,
but there's really no way. This is more of a
way of thinking, and there's only certain ways you can
explain of way of thinking before or you're running around

(13:01):
the barn trying to chase a cat. That might be
the most redneck analogy you've heard today. So congratulations, So
again I'm killing a bit of time. I do think
it's very important. Again, the title of it is misleading
sev first, but we'll get into that in a second. Ah,
mister Smiley, good to see you, sir, from Camp fourteen

(13:26):
fifty two, the Private samuel A Whoy Camp. Oh, there's
about to be some deep thoughts on this show, and
I will probably spend the last couple of minutes of
the broadcast talking to you the chat. For those who
are just rewatching, you can skip ahead to when I'm

(13:48):
actually talking. For those who are watching live, congratulations, you're
stuck with me. But I've been wanting to talk about
this for a while, and I've spent the last two
and a half years going around to the camps in
missip talking on this. I've been to a good decent number,
and I said to myself after I started making my
next program, to go speak to camps about While I

(14:12):
will still be giving this program, I wanted to also
give it on SCV Chat and talk about it. And so, yeah,
go check out my new program on social media if
you're in the Mississippi division. I'll be talking about that
on here as well at some point, but we already
have two great episodes on social media on the SCV
Chat show. So go check out some of our past episodes,

(14:37):
and y'all don't forget April is Confederate History Month and
the Billboard campaign is coming up. We posted about that
today on our Facebook and Instagram pages, so go check
out that and get a debriefing as well. We will
be doing the same thing as we did last year
with a video honoring veterans here at scv chat. So

(14:59):
matter of fact, let me make this, uh declare real
quick misspelled picture. I'm sorry for being so quiet tonight.

(15:31):
We'll be talking very soonly, but real quick. Please send
you please send a picture of your convetererate veteran, their
rank and name to us here at suv chat and
you'll they will be a part of afecial video, a
special video dropping the first week of April. Uh so

(15:54):
make sure to please do that. Sorry, I'm trying to
get the prop ready and it's not working with me.
Oh well, I need to fix that and almost done.

(16:15):
But kind of what we did last year with the
As a matter of fact, you can go see it
right now on face on YouTube. If you have an
idea what you want to do Confederate Heritage Month twenty
twenty four, go check out that video. We're doing it again,
so send a picture or pictures of your Confederate veterans

(16:39):
to honor them with a special video dropping the first
Friday in April, so you have until that Wednesday to
send it in. I know it's short notice, but I'm
hoping you already have the pictures lined up even if
you send in something last year. Send it again. This
is a whole new video and we will be again

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that will be live, So yeah, please send it again
because we'll be making a whole new video and while
we have everybody's stuff on file, I would hate for
someone to miss out, So send it again if you can. Please. Yes,
Confederate Heritage is right. Every day is Confederate History Month.

(17:27):
But I do say April does hold a special place
in our hearts, so please. Yeah, we do have y'all
on our system, Miss Roy and David, But just so
I don't miss anybody, I would like everybody to please
email us again with rank, name, picture. If you don't

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have a picture and just have a picture of their tombstone,
please send that because I know not a lot of
veterans have a picture of themselves. It can be before
if you're anger after the war. It doesn't matter, is
whatever your preference is as family, just please send that
in so I can get started on making that special video.

(18:12):
And again, it'll be releasing the first Friday in April.
That is going to be a hard deadline, so make
sure to please send it in. You have until let's say,
let's say April second. You have until April second. That
gives me two days to work on this because it
will take a while and I'll probably be working on

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it as the emails come in. So please please please
please send that. But you know, if you don't have
a picture, just again their headstone. If you don't have
a picture of the headstone, if they sadly don't have one,
first try to see if you can get your local
camp to raise money for that. That's a great cause. Second,

(19:00):
I guess send a picture of the flag they fought under.
I wouldn't know at that point, but yeah, please support
us in doing that as I'm hoping to make that
a yearly tradition here at SCV chat next year, we
will try to not have if you've sent something in,
We'll try to make our database a bit more clean.

(19:21):
Right now, it's kind of lumped in with all the
other information we have. I'll be working on separating that
this year. Hence why I'm asking if you did send one,
please resend it. It's good to see Camp sixteen seventy
one in the chat. Good to see y'all and Alan
from the Lieutenant General Richard Taylor Camp of thirteen oh eight.

(19:44):
What did I say. I don't even know. I didn't
pronounce your ancestors name, Captain John. Ah. That's a good
idea from past, commander, and you've Chuck Michael. If you
don't have a picture them their headstone, send a picture
of their service record car from the from the archives. Again.

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I know I'm not giving everybody a lot of time
this year to get everything together. Our deepest apologies. I
was I've kind of been swamped with work this month,
so it kind of just donned on me that we're
getting close. I'm gonna need that to be sent in.
I love you too, gg. Good to see Miss Alenda

(20:28):
Gramlin in the chat. Always good all right, everybody. I
think we have killed a good bit of time. And
mister Herbert is right. The Meseri Division Union will be
April twelfth through the April eleventh of the twelfth please
go support that if you can. Uh, that could be

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fun too. Yeah. Now we do want pictures of your ancestors,
but if you got any other information like that, you
can also send that in. I like information. I'm a
history nerd, so yeah, please get all that sent in together.
All right, We're going to take a quick an early

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pop tart break, and when we get back, we are
going to be talking about s the SUV first philosophy,
and then at the end I will have time for questions, comments,
anything you want to add, because this program is heavily
influenced by the camp I'm at, stuff they work with

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and stuff like that. So we'll be right back, but
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up for a bit. So tonight we're gonna be talking
about the SCV first philosophy. What does it mean? Why
is it important to the scv's future. Jason says it's

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fine to blame him since he's been watching a night
behind the scenes. That's why I picked tonight, Commander. I
knew that you couldn't fight back, and I hope, I
hope you got a good chuckle out of it. Watching
on TV phone computer, however, y'all watch Charles the Ray.
Good to see you, sir, I have missed you kinds.

(27:01):
I hope to see you soon at reunion mister Derek. Yeah,
Commander Bouchers is always working hard, bless his heart. He
doesn't know how to take a break like I can talk.
All right, So again this was not made to be

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a long program. Ah, mister tom Wood in the chat,
good to see you, sir. So I will try not
to blow through this like normal. But let me get
something straight first. What SCV first means is one hundred

(27:44):
percent not talking about putting SEV first in your life.
It's not talking about putting it before God, family and
all that stuff. Because for me, personally, God comes first
in my life. That's a hard number one. That's that
is the most important thing in my life is my
Lord and Savior. Second is my family. I spend a

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lot of time with my family. I work on my
family's farm. I come over and see if I can
help my grandfather with anything. Of course, if you know me,
I travel with my father a lot because we both
love the SCV. Well, he put that at me, but
he also put family second, and I love my family.

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I spent a lot of time with my family. So
that's number two. So if SCV first doesn't mean putting
it first, what does it mean? Because for me, I
would probably say the SCV is third on my priority list.
God Family, SCV, because I do so much in this organization.

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I love it. So what does SCV first mean? Well,
simply put, it's about putting the organization first when it
comes who disputes drama or something happening, because when you
put the SEV first, you put your ancestors first. This
whole organization's designed to honor the Confederate soldier, and sometimes

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I think we let drama get in front of that.
Just being candid and completely honest tonight, you might ask,
what do you know about that? I have been involved
in the SCV for longer than my age might tell you.

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I joined as a cadet in two thousand and seven,
the seventh candet in the whole SCV. I believe it
was either that year or the year before where the
cadet program was made. I got to see my number
a couple of years ago before they took me out
of the cadet system because they just forgot to delete me.
And I was messing with one of my friends at

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the time and yeah, sure's enough, Cadet number seven. So
I've been a cadet in the SEV about seventeen years ago,
when I was eight, I became a cadet. For thirteen
years I have been a member of the SCV. October
twenty fourth, twenty eleven, I officially joined the SCV. So

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I am a bit deceptive in my age and my
appearance with how long I've been in this organization. And
for those nearly seventeen years I've either been a member
or at least heavily involved in the SCV. I've seen
some things, and I've seen some things that hurt us,
and the main one would be drama and it is

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definitely a hurtful thing, and I think it is why
we have a retention problem and recruitment problem. Who wants
to join something like this? And again, I'm not trying
to talk negatively tonight. This is just a program that
has been on my heart for a while, and I

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do believe it is essential to the sev's future. If
we can move away from these things, it would be
easier to recruit and easier to retain. Now, there's a
lot of things we can be doing, So why talk
about this specifically? It is because I have noticed the
damage that this stuff has done. Hence, again, why I

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want to focus so much time on this tonight. And
there is a good verse that I'm trying to find,

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and I believe I'm going to go to with Philippians
two three four. Don't do anything because of selflessness or
because you want power. Instead, be humble. Thinking of others
is more important than yourself. Don't look out only for
your own interest, but take an interest in others. Two

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Colossians three, verses thirteen to fourteen. Be kind and forgiving
to each other, just as God has forgiven you. And
all over these virtues put on love, which bind them
all together in perfect unity. So if there was Bible

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verses that were the theme of this talk, those would
be it. Now, there's a lot of other great Bible
verses out there, but those are the ones that I
have picked for this talk. And David puts out a
good one Psalms one hundred and three, Verse one. I believe,

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and the reason why I picked to those was a
lot of people, not out of selfishness, are the want
of power. Now that is out there, will put what
they think is best for this organization, sometimes above making
sure that this organization can flourish. It's a weird thing.

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Everybody in the SEV are Southern men. We're all very strong,
opinionated men, and it's okay to disagree. It is okay
to debate what would be best. And if you still
don't agree with it, that's fine. You can go out
and see if you can convince more people. That's perfectly fine.

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But when it gets to drama, lives, backstabbing and all that,
maybe we've lost something along the way. So be humble,
be ready to have to swallow some pride at times,
be ready to have to swallow some anger. And again,
be kind and forgiving to everybody, just as God has

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forgiven you. Because things happen in this organization that can
put a bad tation in your mouth, and I have
experienced them as well, and instead of turning it into
a feud, I decided to forgive. So those are kind
of the two key aspects of SCV. First a disagreement

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and then something that could have hurt you in this organization,
because tensions run high when you care about something, and
we all care about the mission of this organization. So
that's why the origins of SUV first came at a
weird time in the Mississippi Division. It was about two

(35:03):
years ago when I decided to run for fifth Brigade Councilmen.
The reason to do so is I felt like drama
wasn't only hurting the SEV with recruiting and retention, but
also holding us back from moving forward. We spent so
much energy fighting, debating, going around to campaign against people,

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but not going around to honor our vehmans. We focus
so much on infighting, we haven't even looked at our
outside enemies. Our enemies don't have to lift a finger,
we will destroy ourselves. A lot of organizations that hate
us think that way, they don't have to lift a finger,

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were more than capable of destroying ourselves. And since a
lot of people have kept take their eye off the ball,
that happens. And now it's not the only reason that
we're in this culture civil war I like to call
it today. There are many reasons, and I would love

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to talk about it at one point, but this is
something that has also hurt us, and that if we
don't address it because it makes us uncomfortable, it could
be very well the end of us. Because it does
hurt recontension, it does hurt recruiting, It takes our focus

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away from our mission, It lets us get hurt, and
when we get hurt, it's not us physically, it's our ancestors.
And again I'm expecting some people those who hate out tonight.

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I'm not saying I'm without these problems. I've had to
work my else because I see I don't know if
they're attacking me or not. Are it could be just
getting a nice quote out there. If either way, I'm fine,
But I do want to talk about that. No one's perfect.
Everybody has let their ego get a little large. Everybody

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has not taken something with a grand of assault. Everybody's
gotten hurt, everybody's gotten mad, everybody has let their emotions
guide them. That will happen. What I'm saying is to
not let our differences divide us, but to instead continue
to work for our ancestors and strive as one organization.

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So SEV first came out of that thinking that, in
my personal opinion, in fighting drama and just overall pure
hatred for some other people was hurting us. So I
decided to run specifically to help to be a peacemaker

(38:07):
in the division. That was the whole reason I ran.
I didn't want to run for office just yet. I
was twenty four years old. When I ran two years ago,
I didn't want to run for office. I feel like
I have a long career of working in the SCV.
I did not want to run for office. I really didn't.

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I just wanted to help the SEV and serve the
SEV in anty capacity I could. I think some of
my positions right now I'm greatly suited for and are
very comfortable in those positions. I am one of the

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people that helps out, for instance, with the social media
at the Missippi Division. I feel like I'm very capable
and know a good decent bit of knowledge on social
media and how to help it use it for the SUV.
I'm perfectly final with that. I did not want to
be an officer. I wanted to be a good camp member,

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be a good member to the division and national and
honor my ancestors. But I saw a problem that I
couldn't let stay quiet anymore, and that was why I
came up with this. And while pushing this philosophy, I've

(39:28):
also gotten a lot of hate. When I was running,
I got a lot of camp a hate, A lot
a lot a lot of hate either for my age,
pure on lies and things like that nature, and I

(39:56):
had to learn to let that go and not take
that person. I had to put the organization first so
I don't hurt the organization. Because this was a good
man that was telling all this stuff. He is a
valued member of this organization. I couldn't understand it at

(40:19):
the time, but he just thought he was a better
fed so he traps either stretch the truth are other things. Now.
I'm not gonna say who this man was, but he
and a couple other people really got around Cali. They
did good job, and I had to defend myself. That

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could have been it. That could have been the end
when I lost the election. That could have been in
command of Gramblin. Last time he was on the show,
he says he knows a lot of people that lose
an election and just not run anymore. We need good
people for office. I hope everybody runs that are good

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leaders we need y'all. If you lose the one election,
don't let it dishearten you. If you disagree with someone
and they win an election, don't let that dishearten you.
And that's kind of why I came up with all
this stuff again, trying to go back into the origin
of SEV first, and why I decide to push it

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like I have over the past two years, and why
I have continued to push it now as I am
continuing to run for stuff, continuing to get more involved.
It's very important. Drama in fighting hurts us. So what

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is the SUV first philosophy? Now, say you have a
disagreement with someone on how best to run camp division
are met national stuff like that. Say that person wins
an election, or gets their amendment through, or gets their
idea passed by the governing body of chosen level. Don't

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let that discourage you. There are still great things you
can do in this organization. Instead of spending two years
trying to tear that person down, either their character or
their plan, why don't you take a detour and do
some stuff that you know would be good for the cause.
Do your plan, cleaning cemeteries, reenact, join the MC. There

(42:40):
are so many things you can do in this organization
to spend a number of years hating someone and trying
to tear them down or derail their plan that could
be beneficial to the cause. Let its take its course
when the issue comes back up, bring attention. I do
not see where this plan has worked. I do not
see where it is bared fruit. Let us switch to

(43:04):
our plan and let's see if that works. Be civil,
let it happen naturally. I don't agree with everything that
has happened or that is happening in this organization. Now
does that happen often? No? Not for me. I think
we have really good plans in place, but I don't

(43:26):
agree with all of them, but I support them. I
go up to someone even if I disagree and tell
them I would be happy to help. If I truly
do think that it's doing more harm than good, I'll
just go over in the corner and work on my
own plan. That doesn't mean I'm trying to derail their plan.

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That doesn't mean I'm trying to hurt that person. I'm
not gonna talk crap about that person. I'm not going
to spend years upon years upon years trying to hurt
that person. I'm just gonna do something else. There's so
much sweet that needs to be done to honor our
Confederate veterans, There's so much that needs to be done

(44:08):
to defend their good name to get out in the public.
For me to spend an ounce of time worrying about
someone I disagreed with, and if someone has done me wrong,
and if I need to just get out from that
level for a while. The camp level is the backbone
of this organization. I say, now, if you're having a

(44:32):
disagreement at the camp level, that's a bit different. But again,
you can still do stuff as a singular person or
a smaller group. But we can disagree and not be disagreeable.
That's a great way to put it. There are people
who have traveled hundreds of miles to stop me from
doing something. I don't hold that against them. But if

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we focus in put that effort into getting involved in
the community, to getting a social media team together, to
cleaning cemeteries, to putting up tombstone, putting up monuments, to
getting the message and defending the Confederate soldier's good name
against false history. Could you imagine how different the landscape

(45:20):
of this culture civil war could be. It'd be crazy.
I think we'd be a lot. What's the term. I
think we'd be a lot. We've done a lot of
great things in this war, and a lot of people

(45:41):
harp on the fact that they think the sav doesn't
do anything, which is a lie. But I think that
there would be. I'm trying to think of a way
to say this because I don't want to feed the
people that think that we don't do anything. Because I've

(46:02):
seen a lot of great work in this organization that
I think has made a difference, that's a good way
to put it. I think we'd be a lot farther
ahead when it comes to reclaiming the narrative, if that
makes sense. We have done a lot of good to

(46:25):
make up track for lost time because we weren't getting
out there as an organization. The Kennedys have said it
a lot of times, the SEV is the best kept secret,
and that's because no one knows who we are. So
I think we have made a lot of good ground
in that. But I think we could have been farther
if we were choosing and Victor puts it a great

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way to the Confederate Army didn't always stay together. They
sometimes took different routes for their ultimate goal. We need
to look at them. We also need to look at
them where they didn't make mistakes. They are heroes, they
are our ancestors, but they did they were when they
did make mistakes, drama and ego hurt them too. Sometimes

(47:07):
some people could point out distinctive things that probably ended
up costing them the war. That was a lesson that
they've given us as well. They've given us great lessons,
good and bad effects. That's what makes them good men.
They were able to dust themselves off. And James makes

(47:30):
another good point, and a lot of people are making
good points and I'm trying to showcase them. I try
to promote the outlook that it's not my camp Brigador division,
it's our organization. I try to work with men that
are chosen as leaders and do what I can do
to honorably carry out the charge great perfect and this

(47:50):
is something perfect by Lloyd. Check your egos at the door.
It's not about us, it's about our Confederate ancestors and perfect.
That is perfect because it is we are in an
organization that demands for us to put a group of

(48:13):
men above us, our ancestors, to honor their heritage, or
to honor their history. That is our heritage. You are
in the SEV because someone bled on a battlefield fighting
for a just cause, fighting for their homes. These were

(48:37):
good men and they deserve an organization that is dedicated
to preserving their memory, educating the public, and honoring them,
honoring our heritage. They deserve all that. So let's focus.
If you disagree with someone, that's okay, that happens, don't

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let it hurt the organization. If you disagree with someone
one hundred percent and think they're gonna hurt the organization,
that's fine too. Turn away, do your game plan, or
work at your level camp, division, army, brigade, national, whatever
level it may be. That's fine. You don't have to

(49:23):
spend a decade long attacking someone and shooting down every
of their plan. So my favorite story to tell Mississippi
was deciding to do something that was extremely It was
about putting up a new monument, and someone voted against
it simply because they didn't like someone that was a
part of the plan. It made no, this wasn't a disagreement.

(49:47):
This wasn't a I don't like how you're the way
you're taking the organization. I don't like this game plan.
I think we should be doing this. This was pure hatred.
There have been feuds that have been going on in
this this organization longer than I've been alive. I was
born twenty six years ago, and there are people that

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talk about stuff that happened in the eighties the seventies
and keeping that hatred alive. And anytime this person does
something that can't be a good plan because they did
this thirty years ago. It hurts us. It absolutely hurts us.

(50:32):
It kills us. Could you imagine going to a camp
meeting for the first time and they talk about this
person they hate and they make up lies about them,
and they're trying to get the camp fired up. So
this amendment fails or this plan fails, or they can
go to the DC meeting and shoot it down, or
they can do this they do. Do you want to
be a part of that, just the whole camp trashing

(50:52):
one guy that you don't know from Adam's House Cat.
I know camps like that. Do you want to go
to a reunion where it is just the most bitter,
evil fighting around. There's a difference between disagreeing in reunion

(51:13):
and it getting a bit heated and full bloody hatred.
I've seen it. It's so sad. It breaks my heart
as a Southerner and we're better than this. So that
is what the sev first philosophy is about. Be a peacemaker.

(51:35):
It's two gentlemen are having an argument. That's okay, that's Southern.
Think about it, states rights. The whole disagreement that led
to everything that we succeeded from was a disagreement over
could it should national government have this much say in

(51:57):
our lives, breaking the constitution? We The most Southern thing
you can do is quality. The most Southern thing you
can do is question stuff. That's fine. It's fine to
get a bit heated. We all care about this organization.
What's not fine is letting that turn into hatred when

(52:18):
the disagreement ends, when the amendment passes, fails, the plan
passes or fails. Are we going a different direction and
you don't like it? Drop it? It's okay if say
a couple of years ago, by two or three I
think three years is a great time. It's able to
see if a plan is coming together or not, or
to see if an amendment is working or not. That's

(52:41):
I think that's a perfectly good amount of time. Two
to three years. That's a term cycle. On the SEV.
I say three years because a lot of times it
takes a long time. Three or four actually give a
plan time to mature if it doesn't work. Though in
those years, I would like to bring up the path
the fact of this amendment, this plan, this thing is
not working, and again bring it up to the body,

(53:04):
whether that be the EC, the DEC, the GC, the
national reunion, your division reunion, you camp meeting, your brigade meeting,
army meeting, whatever it may be. But be a Southern gentleman.

(53:32):
Live the charge today. That's part of my SCV first
logo I made Now I made one today for the
national organization with the SCV logo in the center that Again,
this was made at the MISSIP division level, so originally
had the Missive divisional logo above it. It says live the
charge SCV first, Live the charge in your daily life.

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In everything you do in the SCV, think about your
ancestors and the charge and what is our sole mission.
It is to honor our ancestor, is to defend our answers.
This there is a teaching about our answer sacrifice. It
is to make sure that our heritage is not wiped out,
our heritage, their history, what they went through. That is

(54:19):
the mission. In a world today where we have so
many enemies on the outside of this organization trying to
not destroy, just destroy this organization, but Southern heritage itself.
We don't need any help tearing down this organization from
the outside. There have been people that have joined the
sole mission because they are so mad at someone is

(54:41):
to see them fail and in failing, hurt the SEV
just so they can be proven right. I don't want
any leader, I don't want any member to fail because
that would hurt for us, the sons of Confederate veterans.

(55:04):
So when you have drama, when you have someone stab
you back, if you have someone done you wrong, that's all, okay,
don't make it your life mission to make their life miserable.
In every plan they fail, because I guarantee you even
the worst member of the SEV will come up with
a game plan that's good that we should listen to.

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But I know people that have great ideas all the
time to get shot down simply because someone either doesn't
like the person or someone tied to it. There are
people in this organization that hate children of the person
that they disagree with. They're people that hate me just
because of my father in the SEV. What I'm twenty

(55:50):
six years old, he's nearly fifty. I am another man.
I'm not thirteen anymore. Heck, I'm not eighteen anymore. He
is his own man. I'm my own man. But there
are people in this organization that hate me just because
I am the son of Forrest S Dalls. And this

(56:14):
is a great one from past Chief of Heritage Operations,
Ryan Candy, when Donald and him present our commander in Chief,
Candy presented their massive PR came for the National SUV
in the early nineties. It was rejected, but they did
not leave the SUV. They kept working and today the
SUV is beginning cap that PR campaign. A house divided

(56:39):
cannot stand and docr MITTRLL makes a point, if you
don't make enemies, you're not doing your job. But at
the same time, we shouldn't be enemies. At the end
of the day, we're brothers, we're compatriots. Now again, it's

(57:03):
okay to disagree, it's okay to get heated. It's okay
that someone did you wrong and you don't like them
and you don't trust them. That's okay. But we have
used it to hurt this organization for way too long,
way too long. The enemies we should be making are
out there trying to tear us down again. Our enemies
don't have to let the finger. They can just sit back,

(57:26):
get back and watch the fireworks, because we do. I've
seen it hurt us for years now at every level.
I've seen people take a hatred to the grave and
end up hurting us more than helping us. Again, we

(57:50):
have to let bygones be bygones. You have to turn
the other cheek. Jesus our Lord and Savior command and
when someone comes in they you, and they hurt you,
and they stab you in the back, you turn the
other cheek. That does not mean forgetting it. That does
not mean trusting them. That doesn't even mean working together.
Now would it be awesome if you work together that person. Yes,

(58:12):
I've worked with someone that has hurt me in this organization.
I think he is a great heritage, a defense person.
Me and him talk strategies about social media all the
time because I recognize that he has the mind for
this type of stuff. Great men, great man, what he did,

(58:34):
and I can now see that I think I was
in the wrong. Now. That doesn't always happen there. Sometimes
i think I've been in the right still, but I
just don't work with them. And if the operations comes
along to work with them. I am going to work
with them if I think that is a right plan, amendment?
What have you? There's I do like this. A president

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of a college once said, there is only one rule
that every student is to be a gentleman. That man
was General Roberty Lee. We have to be gentlemen. We
have to conduct ourselves like we are going into General
Lee's office for a meeting. We have to conduct ourselves

(59:31):
like even though things can get heated outside of a meeting,
that's it. That's over. If your plan failed, that is
perfectly fine. Think about it for a couple of years.
What a ways to improve it? Is this plan working?
Is it not working? Do I think we need to
go back to my plan? You know, if it's really dire,
you can bring it up as much as you want now.

(59:52):
I don't know if that will get many people on
your side, but it's something you can do. Thank you,
Miss Sullivan. Thank you again. I am not without failure

(01:00:14):
on this. I have been at a meeting and someone
has directly lied to my face about something that I did,
and I was sitting there like I didn't do that,
And during this meeting, me and this gentleman got heated,
and oh gosh, did I get fired up. I went
home and I had a meeting the next day, so

(01:00:36):
me connor Dad were driving somewhere, and I was just
telling them what had happened, you know, and how I
know that this guy has an event coming up and
I'm not going to it anymore. I think I might
have been speaking there too at the event I can't remember,
and I was like, I'm not speaking. I don't want
to go. I don't want to have to present this

(01:00:56):
or that or whatever the occasion was. I can't remember
it exactly. And my dad looked me in and said,
that wouldn't be very SCV first of you, and I
was like, Deck Nabbitt, he's right. I have left this
heated me up too. It is okay. We are human.
It is okay to get madison. It is okay to
you know, at the moment, slap that person's hand and

(01:01:17):
walk away. Now, if you can prevent that from happening
in the first place, that's great. We have all done
stuff to piss each other off. I know we all have,
and that can get very heated at times or to
I don't worry about it, but we should be. Hey,
don't worry about it all the time. There is someone

(01:01:39):
that directly lied about me and someone who told me
that they hated me, and they hoped everything I do
in this organization fails. That's fine, that's your opinion. I
hope you have had great day, sir, and I cannot
wait to help you on whatever you need because i'm
your officer, I'm your brigade counselor, i am your deathy

(01:02:04):
chief of heritage promotions at the.

Speaker 5 (01:02:13):
You need me to do because I'm I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
I think I'm cutting out of it, but I want
to protect the Confederate Soldier's good name. United, we stand, Divided,
we fall. That's why I like working together with other
heritage organizations. That's why I like seeing camps work together, brigades, divisions, army,
big scale national organizations working together. Are national coming together

(01:02:49):
with a group of people in this organization to make
a great plan and to do something. Us working together works.
Our enemies know that if we're divided, we will fail again.
That's why they are That's why they don't have to

(01:03:10):
let the finger. Half the time, we let our own
chaos dwindle, our numbers, make people leave, make them feel uncomfortable,
make them feel unwanted, make them feel hated. We do
all that to ourselves. So I asked tonight, I plead
for you tonight to think about the SEV first. When
you get into a meeting, think about is this hurting

(01:03:31):
your organization? Is this honoring my ancestors? Again, It's okay
to be to hate someone. It's okay to be mad
at someone, well, not to hate someone. It's okay to
be mad at someone you could eat like. You might
even say you have a deep rooted hatred for that
person and what they did back in nineteen forty or

(01:03:54):
twenty twenty five. It's okay, but don't let that hurt
this organization. Don't don't let that hurt recruiting prospects. Don't
let that send a member away. You should never want
to give a bad taste of this organization to anybody's mouth.
We should be working together, and that is the main

(01:04:14):
thing tonight, working together. If we're doing we shouldn't carry grudges.
I couldn't agree with more. If we are doing as
we should, we should be too busy to carry grudges.
I don't want to stand in front of my savior

(01:04:35):
and try to account for holding hatred. You don't have
to like someone to love them. That is perfectly right,
that's perfectly true. If we're doing what we should be
doing for the cause, we should be too busy to
hold to carry grudges. If we're working our tail off

(01:04:56):
of the organization, we shouldn't have time to travel from
camp to camp telling everybody that you hate this person
because they did this amendment a couple of years ago
or this year. It's okay to travel around camps and
say this is philosophy, this is why I hate this
amendment taking apart. But I've went to a camp meeting
and someone said they weren't going to pass an amendment
or a game plan because that person's in charge of it,

(01:05:19):
and that person told me I shouldn't vote for it.
They didn't give a reasoning. They just went on their
sole hatred for this one person that had a great
game plan. We could have missed out if that amendment
hadn't passed on a massive win for the SEV and
Confederate Heritage, a massive win in the Missive division, nearly

(01:05:47):
came that close to mission. Now, well, again, we're not
no one's perfect in this scenario. We all have failed,
but we can all do better. If there's any questions,

(01:06:07):
I'll answer it now. Thank you, Counsel and Hudson, thank

(01:06:29):
you very much. So if there's anything else, we'll kind
of start getting ready to wrap tonight up. Type in
Harrison SCV. That is my SEV page. That's where I
do a lot of talking. That's why I do all
my posts on the SEV. My personal page is just

(01:06:50):
for my family and close friends. And while we're all
family in the SCV, I've had people start judging my
Facebook posts. So just just with simplacity, simplicity, just go
follow me at Harrison SCV. Thank you, mister Floyd. History

(01:07:15):
is our greatest teacher and that's correct. Thank you, doctor Mitcham,
it's good to see you. Thank you David. Well, gentlemen,
if that is it tonight, I think I'm going to
sign off and ask that you join me with the
SEV first philosophy. Join me in putting down drama, being

(01:07:39):
a peacemaker, even if you dislike someone, even if you
have deep rooted hatred, let's work on that. Let's work together,
and let us honor our veterans. Because when you put
the SEV first, you put the mission of the SEV first,
and the mission of the SUV is defendant. Honor the

(01:08:00):
Confederate soldier's good name the charge. Go look at the
back of your SCV I D card anytime soon and
you won't be disappointed. Beautiful words and a mission statement
that this organization does do and we can do it

(01:08:21):
even better with your help. I asked that you share
this episode out, not to promote me or SCV chat tonight.
I ask that you share this out because we need

(01:08:49):
to get this message out and you might not even
need this message. I want to brag on command of
bos Shoes, for he's a very humble man. Now he
has probably had his faults too, but we all have
sometimes the choir does need to be preached to. Not
everybody in this chat episode needed to hear this message tonight,

(01:09:14):
but if you don't join me, help me because all
I want to do is see recruitment Skyrocket, retention Skyrocket,
and the work we're doing for our ancestors Skyrocket. That's
all I want. So please share this episode tonight for
that one reason. I want to get this message out
to as many people as possible. Explain to them it's

(01:09:35):
gonna be boring for the first twenty minutes. He just
kind of goes on a little rampage. But tell them
it's worth it. If you think it is, we all
can do a better job at this me included, I'm
definitely not without fault. Our ancestors were human too. They

(01:09:57):
did make mistakes. Let us learn from them. Let us
not let drama and hatred tear us apart. Let us
join together and work together for a better future for
our ancestors, for our heritage, which is their history. If
you ever go into the thing and you're not sure

(01:10:18):
what to do, remember the SEV first philosophy. If I
put this organization first, I put my ancestors first, and
that is the main mission. It's keeping their good name alive,
keeping our heritage alive. Thank you all for watching tonight.
It has been great to see everybody and talk with everybody.

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Make sure to send your picture of your Confederate veteran,
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and you'll be featured in a special video honoring our ancestors.
Dropping the first Friday in April, the deadline is the
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(01:11:06):
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(01:11:28):
on the upcoming episode of Look Around the Confederation. Make
sure to check out on Tuesday, look Around Florida, Mister
Hardy Show on Sundays, and remember chat heads to stay Southern.
Good Night.

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