Posted on 08/22/2017 12:40:50 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Since 2007, John Culpepper had been anticipating this moment: the unveiling of a statue to the common Confederate soldier in his hometown of Chickamauga, Georgia. In November of last year, three days before Donald Trump won the presidency, it became a reality.
Culpepper founded the local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the self-described historic honor society that's been keeping the Confederate legacy alive for more than a century.
Culpepper greeted visitors with smiles and handshakes as they filed into rows of white folding chairs behind the towering, shrouded statue. Most of them were his neighbors from Chickamauga, a town of some 3,000 people near the Tennessee border. Some were dressed in the uniforms of Confederate soldiers; a woman and her daughter came dressed in hoop skirts, and bikers wore leather jackets and bandanas awash in Confederate flags.
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I have some liberal family members and I think they're ready to shoot anybody and everybody.
Worth repeating.
That’s the reaction I sometimes have when going to our old, inactive family cemetery to clean up graves for Easter. Those who passed away during the Civil War and even Reconstruction have graves marked with rocks. A “store- boughten” headstone was totally out of reach to them then, and we’re talking a formerly prosperous family whose sons attended university, antebellum. They didn’t own slaves, either. Then there are all the males in the family who died scattered across numerous battlefields and were buried in unmarked mass graves. That’s what the memorials and statuary were for, since they had nothing else. Gordonsville at least has a roster so they’re not totally unknown, several there alone.
My great grandfather in Kentucky (yes, great-grandfather, born in 1814) fought in the civil war... His family was slaughtered by 'bushwhackers' when he was away from his home. He moved on to Missouri and married again and had four sons... Even his history does not move me to entertain the notion of another civil war.
Mine at least for now are in favor of 'gun-control'. I refuse to engage their lunacy.
Wow. A testament to how civil war destroys wealth, destroys families, destroys futures. It's awful, but it's coming back again. God help us all.
Indeed. I do not want it to come, but I think it will. I had family on both sides of the last civil war, and I will have family on both sides of the civil war I fear is coming soon. God help us all.
A pit of poverty and ignorance that it took over a century to climb out of, I’m the first university grad in the family since before that war, graduated in the mid-late ‘80s.
So, for anyone thinking they’re eager for this, you may want to ruminate on the cost. If it comes, it comes, no choice but to engage in that instance. But agitating for it is in my opinion foolhardy, coming from those who either don’t think they’ll lose their whole world, or have never considered the potential consequences.
My $.02 on this. Statues with both Yankee and Confederate soldiers locked in hand to hand battle should be erected and dedicated to all Americans. (My son is fourth generation military and my ancestors came after that war.)
>> That’s exactly what will happen. They will put these statues and monuments to the Confederates on private property and shoot anyone who disturbs them.
There are big Confederate flags on I-10 and I-65 here in Alabama.
Here in Maryland I fly several different Confederate flags right next to Old Glory. Anyone attempts to remove any of them will wish they hadn’t been born.
I read a year or so ago that a huge Confederate battle flag is now being flown on private property adjacent to I-95 in Virginia.
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