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Happy Confederate Surrender Day!

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by goalmouth, Apr 9, 2020.

  1. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    End of the military portion of The War of Northern Aggression


     
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  2. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Lee and his henchmen should have been hanged as traitors. Every last one of them.
     
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  3. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Too bad Sherman didn't have the atomic bomb.
     
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  4. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Arlington National Cemetery is built on Lee's plantation, originally seized by the Union.
     
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  5. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Thoughts and prayers for Trumpists.
     
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  6. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Absolutely!

    And for consistency's sake, this also applies to rebel factions in Libya, Syria, Venezuela, etc.?
     
  7. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Lee is buried at Washington and Lee University, some 185 miles from Arlington.
     
  8. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    SEC stands for SECond Place in the Civil War.
     
  9. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    If Lincoln had been assassinated 2 weeks earlier, they might well have been.
     
  10. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Or if he hadn't been assassinated at all. It's hard to imagine Lincoln, had he been around to see the uprising of the KKK and the Confederate domestic terrorists, just sitting back and letting them run amuck as Andrew Johnson did. Quite quickly I suspect Lincoln would have said, "what the hell did we fight the war for," and sent Grant or Sherman back down with orders to clean out the trash.
     
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  11. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    So that goes for Washington, Jefferson, Adams too?
     
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  12. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Benjamin Franklin's comment at the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence: "We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."

    They knew the risks. The confederate scum pussied out. They should have demanded to be executed rather than live with their Former slaves
     
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