Confederate soldiers=terrorists

Actually, 145.

 

145 years is not all that much. Put it this way, there are people alive today who knew soldiers who fought in that war. I'd venture to guess there are some people around who knew slaves too.

 

I'm 55. That's old by board standards. My grandparents, long dead, knew people who fought in the War. It's time to let go.

I'll absolutely defend people who say we can't forget the Holocaust. There are people still alive who survived that.

The Civil War/Between the States is done.

 

How very Sarah Palin of you.

Of our current military about 35 percent comes from the South. You're welcome.

 

Which ought to be the proof that only the lunatic fringe is still living in the 1860s.

Military service is one of the points of intersection for Southerners, of all classes, for good or ill.

 

My great grandmother, who taught me to read, was born just before the Civil War started and grew up under reconstruction. She didn't care much for Lincoln, one of our three greatest Presidents (at least). You may hate her and people like her; I don't.

Two simple ideas I will state as facts:

Slavery is the greatest wrong we have done in this country. It's around all our necks to one degree or another; we're still paying for it.

There were good and bad people in the South, during the time of slavery as there are now. To insult them as a group, as is so often done on this board, is just wrong.

 

It's payback for Dan Jenkins insulting everyone else.

 

Jenkins is just fine as long as he sticks to writing about light-running five irons.

 

My mother remembers feeling the holes in her great-grandmother's skull from where a Yankee soldier drove his gunstock into the haircomb my great-great-grandmother refused to hand over when the Yankees turned up on her front porch.

No one is a monolith. I disagree with my family's politics from my great-great-grandmother to my mother. How much I love them, and what I would do for them, is a completely separate issue.

I've heard tell America contains multitudes.

 

If we change our way of life, the Confederates have won

 

Those books have only been out about 10 years now, and Civil War re-enactments have been going on since, well, the Civil War, and I don't notice any wholesale move to secede again. Try to keep up.

 

Anytime a contemporary concept is applied to a different time period, you're walking on dubious eggshells.