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To: Realist05; SuzyQ2
Tactical genius, moral monster

I can forgive him for 1, 3 & 4...

Seriously, though:

To put some perspective on General Nathan Bedford Forrest

My thought on the matter is that those who wish to put down those like Forrest and Robert E. Lee these many years after the fact would have never dared to speak such things to those men's faces...

7 posted on 07/20/2007 6:48:41 PM PDT by an amused spectator (AGW: If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a research lab, you never know what you'll find)
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To: an amused spectator
MOST of the detractors are NOT fit to lick the boots of our HERO-MARTYRS of the TRUE CAUSE of dixie LIBERTY.

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47 posted on 07/21/2007 12:20:08 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: an amused spectator

“would have never dared to speak such things to those men’s faces...”

Exactly!


55 posted on 07/21/2007 8:56:49 PM PDT by TheZMan (Texas is no place for pansy-ass liberals. Ya'll move back to California er Mexico er somethin')
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To: an amused spectator

‘My thought on the matter is that those who wish to put down those like Forrest and Robert E. Lee these many years after the fact would have never dared to speak such things to those men’s faces...’

I would, and I admire both.

And they both admired people that spoke their mind...too a point, of course.


124 posted on 07/23/2007 11:45:11 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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