Gadzooks, what a hornet's nest both sides are poking! I honor my Southern Heritage, Distant Cousin Bobby Lee and old Honest Abe all the same. They are historical figures from my nation's history and I do not wish to trash them.
If you will notice, at the end of the Civil War or The Late Southern Rebellion as it is mostly called in the Deep South, there was not wholesale slaughter of the defeated soldiers or former rebel civilians. Look around at modern civil wars and the mass slaughter of one or both sides is a given. Look at the Middle East. Look at the recent Rwandan or Burundi Civil Wars or the recent Balkan conflicts where death camps and mass massacres were the norm.
Ours may have been a civil war but it was downright civilized compared to those of today.
Yes, there was a severe Reconstructions Period that hardened the re-assimilation of the body politic. Those hard feelings lasted until the Spanish American War at the turn of the century where ex-Confederate officers co-commanded American troops in Cuba.
While napscoordinator may spit on the history of the Civil War period, I am proud of my nation and the men on both sides for coming out of it to build a grand nation that bred me.
However, I temper this as I fear we are going through a very, very bad period nowadays where the Federal Government in the hands of the Liberal Democrats hellbent to radically change the basic fabric of our nation and make Christian, Catholic or Jewish citizens an oppressed minority even if they are in the actual majority. I see these and other of their PC Correct/Global Warming/etc actions have the possibility of tearing us apart again.
If necessary I will shed my blood and/or give my life to protect and defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
I am not at all sure what napscoordinator would do--
The War of Northern Aggression is how I refer to what is commonly called our “Civil War”.
Lincoln would have given his left nut to have General Robert E. Lee as his lead general over that second-stringer, Ulysses S. Grant.
The bottom line is that our Constitution came under a devastating assault by President Lincoln and has not been the same ever since.
I have often wondered how things might be different today, had the Confederacy won that War.
The again, I also wonder where we would be if TODD BEAMER and his fellow passengers had just stayed in their seats on 11 September, 2001. Would we be saddled with Barak Hussein Obama living large in OUR White House today? Somehow, I think not. He would still be pushing his shit cart around the Windbag City, is my guess.