Macedonians in US Army
Gandeto
November 23, 2008
One of the favorite drummed-up charges against the Macedonians by the Greek propagandists is their so-called "ace" that "Tito created the Macedonians". Indeed, this absurd notion that a person can create an entire ethnic group of people from a mass of other ethnicities is not only humanly impossible but down-right laughably ridiculous.
Ethnicity is not a choice one makes; you are either born into it or subconsciously, through collective assimilations of shared essences from a primordial progenitor over a long period of time, you become acculturated and imbued with practiced traditions and rituals and thus accepted into the collective assemblages of indices that color and identify the ethnic group you grow into and identify yourself with. Moreover, ethnicity as a descriptive phenomenon with fluid contours is not created overnight nor is it nurtured to fruition by conscious endeavors. Thus, the deluded adherents of this preposterous assumption that Tito created the Macedonians in 1945 are either forcefully deprived of a normal cognitive reasoning or are imbued with such calamitous convictions that their functional exhibits are repugnantly naïve.
This document below should put to rest, if it hasn´t done so already, any absurd notion that Macedonians are anything else but Macedonians.
As Macedonian immigrants arrived to U.S. they were living the full freedom of self determination. From the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the U.S.A had a neutral position and managed to keep itself from being involved in the "Big War". But that position was abandoned in 1917, when 24 million American recruits were sent to participate in the war in Europe. Among those recruits were soldiers of Macedonian origin from Ohio. Faced with the opportunity to declare themselves as "Bulgarians" and avoid the draft altogether, they chose to remain Macedonians, and gave their lives in the war.
(This statement as a historical testament is to serve as a reminder against any illusory notion brought forth by the enemies of Macedonia; you will never succeed in denying us our rightful place in history.)
According to the proclamation of the President of the U.S.A, Woodrow Wilson, all men of German origin, including the allies of Germany, were declared as alienated enemies and were discharged from army service.
So, Bulgaria as a German ally was included in this proclamation of the U.S. President. All men of Bulgarian origin were released from the drafting.
These brave Macedonians chose to fight in this war along with the American troops, and to die only as MACEDONIANS. This is one shining example of inherited love for one´s ethnicity. The Macedonian soldier, if he wanted to avoid the draft, he could have done so in a heart beat; all he had to do was to proclaim himself Bulgarian and he would have been home free but he chose to remain Macedonian. The option was there and inviting but he clearly declined the offer and chose to, in spite of the inherent danger of going to war, remained true to his ideals.
Many thanks to Makedonika for this exhibit.
Until next time…
Ethnicity is not a choice one makes; you are either born into it or subconsciously, through collective assimilations of shared essences from a primordial progenitor over a long period of time, you become acculturated and imbued with practiced traditions and rituals and thus accepted into the collective assemblages of indices that color and identify the ethnic group you grow into and identify yourself with. Moreover, ethnicity as a descriptive phenomenon with fluid contours is not created overnight nor is it nurtured to fruition by conscious endeavors. Thus, the deluded adherents of this preposterous assumption that Tito created the Macedonians in 1945 are either forcefully deprived of a normal cognitive reasoning or are imbued with such calamitous convictions that their functional exhibits are repugnantly naïve.
This document below should put to rest, if it hasn´t done so already, any absurd notion that Macedonians are anything else but Macedonians.
As Macedonian immigrants arrived to U.S. they were living the full freedom of self determination. From the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the U.S.A had a neutral position and managed to keep itself from being involved in the "Big War". But that position was abandoned in 1917, when 24 million American recruits were sent to participate in the war in Europe. Among those recruits were soldiers of Macedonian origin from Ohio. Faced with the opportunity to declare themselves as "Bulgarians" and avoid the draft altogether, they chose to remain Macedonians, and gave their lives in the war.
(This statement as a historical testament is to serve as a reminder against any illusory notion brought forth by the enemies of Macedonia; you will never succeed in denying us our rightful place in history.)
According to the proclamation of the President of the U.S.A, Woodrow Wilson, all men of German origin, including the allies of Germany, were declared as alienated enemies and were discharged from army service.
So, Bulgaria as a German ally was included in this proclamation of the U.S. President. All men of Bulgarian origin were released from the drafting.
These brave Macedonians chose to fight in this war along with the American troops, and to die only as MACEDONIANS. This is one shining example of inherited love for one´s ethnicity. The Macedonian soldier, if he wanted to avoid the draft, he could have done so in a heart beat; all he had to do was to proclaim himself Bulgarian and he would have been home free but he chose to remain Macedonian. The option was there and inviting but he clearly declined the offer and chose to, in spite of the inherent danger of going to war, remained true to his ideals.
Many thanks to Makedonika for this exhibit.
Until next time…
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