If someone like Nathan B. Forrest can pronounce such words of wisdom, why do we come here on FR and fight viciously with each other about who did what to each other going on 200 years ago? It is beyond my understanding. Perhaps people like Mark Levin and Michael Medved and this author, are descendants of people who arrived here much later than the Civil War and so want to make sure everyone knows they are proper Americans on the right side of the issues involved; I can't think of any other reason to continually bring up the subject and bash the south over and over again until I've stopped listening to Medved and switch off when Mark starts up.
I think we all enjoy discussing history and the Civil War is one of the most fascinating - and romantic - wars to many people (particularly the British). But that is not the same as viciously attacking the opinions of people here who had great grandfathers die in this war and wish to honor their memory by flying flags and laying wreaths at Confederate War memorials. I only wish I had ancestors who fought in the war rather than be part of the New York draft riots. Now there's something to be ashamed of!
miss marmelstein:
"But that is not the same as viciously attacking the opinions of people here who had great grandfathers die in this war and wish to honor their memory by flying flags and laying wreaths at Confederate War memorials." Despite what you may have heard (and where was that?), everyone posting on Free Republic, recognizes and honors the unbelievable courage, military skills, tenacity and good behavior of soldiers on both sides in the US Civil War.
In that, those young men set high examples which our military hopes to follow to this day.
And there is huge sympathy and love for Southern culture, music, food and even the Lost Cause, all over the country.
Let me give you a personal example:
Two weeks ago I drove from Pennsylvania to New Orleans, through seven Southern states, over 1,000 miles each way, and in all that that trip did not see a single Confederate Battle Flag.
No, I'm not saying there aren't any, just that I didn't see them.
On the other hand, when I drive through small towns and villages of central Pennsylvania, I see US and Confederate flags flying side-by-side in maybe a third of them.
So we love the South, we love our rebels and we love the old Union, not so much the new progressive-liberal-socialist Democrat Big Government one...
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