What is really outrageous about this, is that those who heap insults on the progress in restoring good-will among rooted Americans, which prevailed at least among Conservatives North & South, from 1900 through the Reagan Administration, has been deliberately destroyed by Leftists in what I refer to as the Academic/Media complex, over the past 20 years.
It is, of course, part of what the Left intends to be the "end game" strategy in destroying the last vestiges of the work of the Founding Fathers. (I have dealt with that in Creating Hate In America Today.) But as one who grew up in an America that even with the Leftist successes in my youth, still honored the brave men on both sides of the tragic war (1861-1865), it is almost beyond belief that anyone at a Conservative venue would try to sabotage that good feeling; as well as being utterly disgusting.
Hell, even JFK--as bad as he was as President, wrote a book, "Profiles in Courage," which honored the great Carolinian, John C. Calhoun, as well at the Kentuckian Henry Clay, and the famous Massachusetts Liberal, Daniel Webster.
In the America of the middle of the last Century, patriots, North & South, would rise to the playing both of Dixie and the Battle Hymn of the Republic; and a hero like Douglas MacArthur would speak eloquently both of the "Blue & the Grey," on equal terms--even though his father had been a Union General.
I recognize that one can debate old issues, and not cross a line. But when the "debate," is to needlessly attack those who opted for restoring the good will between cultures, that led to the Union in the first place; then it is time to draw a new line. These sort of attacks are totally inconsistent with the Federal Union created in the original coming together to a common purpose. As such they deserve only the contempt of all who understand that common purpose, born in toleration & mutual respect for our differences, as well as a common self-interest.
Indeed
Beating on the South and our history in 2015 is nothing more than a tool of the Left and NeoCons today
And they are almost indistinguishable in the Trump epoch
MacArthur’s much younger wife was a Murfreesboro belle from a rich family with strong CSA military heritage....she lived to aged 101 btw
MacArthur’s mom was pure southern with CSA family members who weren’t too kin she married MacArthur’s Union celebré daddy
MacArthur wrote about being immersed in southern veteran men being raised in forts all over the west as a boy where many an old CSA vet found work after the war with the Federals especially in Texas where he attended a southern steeped military academy
MacArthur was a true American who respected and celebrated the integrity of both sides his blood ran red with
Unlike these race baiters today
He would be appalled
Hell Sherman and Grant would be appalled
Likely only Stevens and Sumner and Stanton would approve
But they didn’t want blacks in their neighborhood or daughters bedroom did they?
Born and raised in Georgia,descended from more Tennessee families than from any other state that I’m aware of, I learned to respect the soldiers of both sides. I recall that when I was a kid, visiting souveneir shops at battle sites, I was fond of kid-sized headgear from both sides. It turns out as an adult, that in addition to Confederate soldiers in my family history, I discovered a great,great grandfather who was a Tennessee Union veteran. He was from East Tennesse, which supplied the Union with most of its 30,000 Tennessee volunteers. Like my Cofederate kin, I respect him as one who had the courage of his convictions, a very rare quality these days.