Methinks that it is you who "just doesn't get it." Nobody here has fantasies of killing US troops. No US troops have fantasies of killing US citizens.
Like Shelton's father (and herself), who carried their hostility towards half of America to the grave, you rant and rave against the very people who compose half the country that you claim to so love. Your partisanship extends well beyond Republican politics into your hatred of anyone and everyone who demands that the nature of this Republic be the basis for its governance. You despise those who fought on behalf of the principles upon which division of power rests. You are of the breed which brought the war; whose pettiness and blindness to the desires of others on both sides split this country so deeply.
Compare her sewage and her father's demands that the "traitor coin" not be minted with the actions of those who attended reunions with former enemies and reconciled the sections in the years following the war. According to Shelton, those Union soldiers who were able to bury the hatchet and the congress who approved the coin and aided in construction of Stone Mountain are no less traitorous than the men who wore the grey in open hostility. According to her, the Republican party with which you choose to ally yourself so closely was nothing more than a tool of the klan. Tell me, does your book also give this account?
Was secession about slavery? Surely it was in the deep South, but you and Shelton claim it as uniform cause for the Confereracy. Virginia was solidly behind the cause of Union until her people learned of the planned hostilities toward her sister states. The unified Northern sentiment which you laud was nonexistent. Were hostilities a necessity? How likely is it that a seven-state confederacy could have lingered long without an attempt to reunify herself with the more powerful Northern Union?
In spite of all your nonsense regarding the killing of US troops and weak attempts to draw parallels between citizens acting in their sovereign capacity as outlined in the DOI and Constitution, you are the only one who has demonstrated hostility on these threads. It is you who venerate those who killed offensively, and not in defense of their homes and families. It is you who initiates vitriolic flame-wars and calls Americans terrorists, and it is you who is in conflict with credible historians.