Posted on 02/03/2006 4:55:22 PM PST by paltz
They're still in high school. BTW, when do you graduate?
I fly all those you mentioned plus the Gadsen flag, the Bonnie Blue Flag and my beloved CBF!
The CBF ia a symbol of fighting injustices against great odds.
"And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his Fathers
And the Temples of his Gods"
Lord MacCauley "Lays of Ancient Rome"
Descendants of Quantrill's bushwackers [and Anderson's and Todd's and Poole's, etc.] as well as desendants of the troops who fought under Jo Shelby might disagree with you.
It sounds to me like these boys know much more about history than their counterparts up here is Yankeedom.
Being a BSA leader for 24 years I speak from experience.
Each of them individually was quite capable of stomping a mudhole in me. I decided to lay off the Polack jokes.
Thing is, most of the time they were great guys (if over-testosteroned due to the roids they were taking for bodybuilding). But all of a sudden they'd just start launching on blacks or Japanese or Arabs or Indians or even Italians and it sounded like something straight out of a KKK rally. Far worse stuff than I ever heard growing up in central Virginia in the '70s.
They thought it was the coolest thing in the world when I hung up a Confederate naval jack that I bought at some cheap surplus store back home. Unfortunately, they thought it was cool for all the WRONG reasons. So later on I bought a Confederate First National flag (the true "Stars and Bars") at the Chattanooga/Chickamauga National Battlefield gift shop and hung it up instead. That did a good enough job of reminding me where I was from (growing up 25 miles from Appomattox) without sending those two yahoos into waves of racist ecstasy every time they saw it.
}:-)4
The superior intellect of the morthern, tolerant multicultural student on display...
lol! The Greenwich Village battle flag.
You haven't been in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee have you. You'un, we'un etc are quite common expressions. We used to razz my brother-in-law all the time mocking him. :-)
OB
I guess that depends on what you believe in. My ancestors came from Missouri and one of them even ran slaves to freedom. I however, believe in the right of a state to determine its own internal affairs without interference from the Feds. I believe in the right of self-determination as our Founders saw it. And I believe I would've fought for the South based on those two beliefs alone. It isn't about slavery and racism, its about freedom.
P.S. You don't know much about Missouri State history do you? Do ya think that Jesse James, Frank James, Capt. William Clarke Quantrill, Bloody Bill Anderson, Cole Younger and Bob Younger considered themselves to be Yankees?
That is the equivalent of proudly stating that because you believe in the freedom and right to self-determination of the head of the household, you would refuse to report and in fact fight police intervention against a husband who repeatedly beats and rapes his wife and molests his children in the sanctity of his own home. Gee, how noble.
Another blowhard "Southron" wrapping himself in a rebel flag of kooky nonsense, like children dressing up in Star Wars outfits. Oh what a 'gentleman' patriot you are. BTW, I'm a native Texan whose ancestors came here after surviving Sherman's march to the sea, so the 'Yankee' copout won't work.
You know. I never thought of it like that. Thanks for the new slant.
It was disruptive, all right.
It disrupted an official values celebration called "Everyone-but-YOU Day". Read this again:
The assembly included celebrations of Irish, Spanish, Bosnian, Indian, Middle Eastern, black, American, Japanese and Chinese cultures, among others, Jeffers said.Might as well call it "Everyone's a Real Person Except Southern Scots-Irish Trailer Trash Day".
Or perhaps it was an accidental omission. Maybe they just assumed anyone who was "one of them" would be out driving a long-haul tractor-trailer rig instead of sitting in school.
a recent survey of 500 HS teachers, taken by a college student from KS, indicates that about 35% couldn't tell you what in which CENTURY WW1 was fought.
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after the revolution, she was gifted with a land grant of 640 acres in Collin County, for her service & died of old age there on her farm in 1875.
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i'm the G-G-grandson of PVT William James (Little Thunder) Freeman, late of the 1st Mounted Cherokee Rifles & the 4th Missouri Partisan Rangers.
fwiw, BG Stand Watie was my ancestor's first commanding general. i took a diminutive of the General's WAR-name because my ancestor's WAR-name was being used by another FReeper when i joined FR.
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Thank you! I've heard of "you'uns" before, but didn't know where it originated.
"You know Colonel, I always thought of you as a cold pitiless man, but you really are quite emotional."- Lee Marvin's character in the Dirty Dozen.
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