[backwoods-engineer]

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.

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.

[RegulatorCountry]

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.