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To: vetvetdoug
Harvard destroyed any history of those that graduated from the university and served with the Confederacy.

How so? I know that in the 1870s they built a memorial to graduates who had died in the Union forces, but emotions were still strong at that time, and you'd be hard pressed to find a Southern college at that time honoring any of their graduates who fought for the union.

10 posted on 12/31/2022 9:54:34 AM PST by x
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To: x; vetvetdoug; Pelham

Oh boo-hoo those meanie old Southerners

Unlike you I live down here and we have plenty of monuments honoring the dead on both sides they make a point of doing that in fact just a few years ago in Franklin Tennessee who was building a new target they found the Ramones of an unidentified soldier when they were doing the site prep And they They had a big deal funeral for him and they honored him with both flags etc. given that it was impossible to ascertain which side you fought for who apparently had both union and confederate buttons on his jacket which was not unusual for either size since they turned it to pick up buttons from the battlefield to replace the ones that broke all the time

https://www.al.com/live/2009/10/unknown_civil_war_soldier_rebu.html

But yes I think the Ivy League and most colleges in general or lost they are just bastion of Wokeness that cost too damn much I don’t see the benefit of college these days unless you have a specific plan that requires a degree I would not pay all that money just for a run-of-the-mill liberal arts degree to put on the wall like I have but mine cost about 10% of what they cost today

https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-monuments-of-Union-soldiers-in-the-American-South

Aside from the neo abolitionist in reconstruction Most people were more magnanimous to both sides Open till very recently when they became sanctimonious about it like you are


16 posted on 12/31/2022 10:05:41 AM PST by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of liars)
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To: x

You do know that US Grant’s Presidential Library is at Mississippi State University? Unlike the North, the South embraces its history whether it’s wrong or right. Harvard still shows animosity towards those that graduated from the university that served the Confederacy. One caveat, a Harvard professor researched secession and came to the conclusion that the South was right and Lincoln’s actions were wrong.


40 posted on 12/31/2022 11:45:55 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: x

Mem Hall does not remember any of those students who fought for the Confederacy.


49 posted on 12/31/2022 7:13:04 PM PST by ladyjane
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