[Sioux-san]

The Tyranny has been going on for a long time in our fair Nation. From now on, I will refer to this time in our country's history as the 'War of Northern Aggression.'

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I remember reading a Sunday comic about the Civil War during the centenary when I was in grade school. The events in the comic depicted events occurring exactly one hundred years before.

[tgusa]

James Longstreet? Really?

[2ndDivisionVet]

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”

~Abraham Lincoln, Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858

[txrefugee]

When a wife wants to leave her husband and he bludgeons her into staying, the result is not freedom or love but resignation. The scars remain.

[Don Corleone]

'War of Northern Aggression.'

If you reside below the Mason-Dixon like that is the correct appellation.

[upcountryhorseman]

It’s clear that the victors write the history: thus, the history books used in public schools distort what happened.
As I see it, there are two basic truths: The North invaded the South and We all agree that slavery is morally and economically wrong, but beyond that, southerners were fighting to defend their homes.

[ifinnegan]

This is a good question.

I think it is ignorance on the part of those who somehow chose what to commemorate. Civil War is forgotten.

But more importantly, the black vote as a bulk whole is more important.

Raising awareness of a war in which so many Americans died to free blacks might open the eyes and minds of a few too many black voters.

The leftists need the near unanimous vote and even a small percentage change throws elections back in the R column.

[Myrddin]

I can't take side since I have ancestors from each side. The southern side arrived with my mom's family via Jamestown. The northern side arrived via the Mayflower. The last arrival was my paternal great grandfather. He emigrated from Wales in 1863 and served in the Union Army from 1863-1865...much of that time in a southern POW camp.

[CodeToad]

Anyone attempting to rationalize the war or attempting to lay blame on people of today are succumbing to the same illogical reasoning that racists use to say whites owe blacks “reparations”.

[Oberon]

If the South had had the sense to abolish slavery early in the war, it would likely have swayed public opinion overwhelmingly to the South’s favor both at home and abroad. Had the South succeeded in splitting off from the US, however, one wonders what the future would have held for the new Confederate States of America.

[fella]

To remind the reparations pimps of all the lives, blood and treasure spent to free the slaves would take all the wind out of their sails and so is therefore politically incorrect.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Down here in Dixie we have always referred to it that way. :-)

[Billthedrill]

I don't refer to it as the War of Northern Aggression any more than I refer to it as the Treason of the Slaveholders. Both are deliberately provocative locutions designed to close off debate, not to encourage it.

My family very definitely fought on both sides. I have yet to establish if they actually ever shot at one another. Presumably, since I'm sitting here, some of them got missed.

[DoodleDawg]

The Tyranny has been going on for a long time in our fair Nation.

If you include as tyranny the owning of a human being as if they were a horse or a cow then the tyranny went on a lot longer prior to the Civil War than after.

[Organic Panic]

If people were taught an honest view of that part in our nations history several things would come out. But historians are more interested in protecting the divinity of Lincoln and maintaining the southern image of being filled with ignorant white banjo picking racists.

Instead, it is condensed in to a one line reason. “Lincoln wanted to free the slaves.”

[celmak]

The Democrats don't want to be remembered of their history.

God bless the modern Christian Conservative South! It is now our last hope.

[Chickensoup]

I was just thinking about this yesterday.

150 years without war in this country.

That is a landmark.

[HandyDandy]

Anyway, I just wanted to share that I was in attendance at Gettysburg for the Centennial in 1963. I was 9yrs old. Biggest event I have ever seen, to this day. Was there for ten days. Saw the re-enactment of Pickett’s Charge. Saw Eisenhower. Little Round Top, Big Round Top, Devil’s Den, Meade’s Headquarters, Culp’s Hill, etc. Then the next month, August, I saw JFK at Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod. He was assassinated a few months later. Just reminiscing........