[Bodleian_Girl]

I’m having to re-think it. I mean, do Germans have monuments to Hitler?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Are you from the South? If so you should be aware of the rich and gracious culture of our region. Slavery was a national disgrace not a Southern disgrace. Many, many people in the North owned slaves until after the War between the states ended. I am very proud to be a Southern woman and would never want to live anywhere else and I’m going to be very vocal about attempts to destroy Southern heritage. It is what it is.

[wardaddy]

You’re a pathetic excuse for a southerner

Don’t apologize on my behalf please

How old are you?

You know though....you could be anything

Half the posters here with Texas in their nicks aren’t from there and are boot licking race baiters

Maybe you’d be better off at Morris Dees joint

[Pelham]

It’s not hard to find pics of Battle Flags on American equipment in WWII. Guess you never bothered to look before excreting that bit of nastiness. Probably comes natural to you.

Eisenhower displayed the pictures of Lee and Jackson in his White House office. Patton is descended from CSA officers. So call them Nazis while you’re at it.

[BroJoeK]

Bodleian_Girl: "I’m having to re-think it.
I mean, do Germans have monuments to Hitler?"

It's sometimes tempting to compare Confederates to Nazis, after all, both the Confederacy and Nazi Germany declared war on the United States and both suffered unconditional surrender.
Indeed, both still have US military forces stationed on their lands.

Further, such comparisons as Confederates = Nazis are the Left's stock in trade, they make their livings off of it.
But we must always resist such temptations and never make the comparison, because in every important sense, it does not apply.
Here's why:

1. Yes, both Nazis and Confederates wished to establish a slavocracy, with their own "race" ruling.
   But the huge difference is that whereas the Confederacy merely extended a millenniums'-long cultural & legal tradition, the Nazis intended to re-impose slavery or serfdom on European "untermenschen" who had already been freed for centuries.

2. Nazis were largely insane homicidal maniacs, bent not merely on dominating Europe, but also on general destruction of those deemed by themselves "life unworthy of life".
   Nothing remotely resembling such insanity afflicted the Confederate slavocracy.

3. The WWII death toll of European civilians was at least 25 million, of American civilians during the Civil War a few score, perhaps hundreds, confirmed.

4. Nothing in the Confederacy's history remotely resembled the Nazi Holocaust of Jews.
   Indeed, it's important to remember that Northern leaders like Abraham Lincoln just assumed that Southern whites and blacks could never live side-by-side without slavery, and so they hoped to arrange for black resettlement in Africa or the Caribbean.
   And yet, as it turned out, given the choice, nearly all freed African Americans preferred to live in America rather than return to the Africa of their ancestors.

   By sharp contrast, every Jew who could escape Europe under the Nazis did so.

The fact is that Confederates fought honorably for a cause they believed was just, and indeed, many argue on Free Republic that Confederate troops were much better behaved on Northern soil than were Northern troops marching through the South.

Of course today no Conservative suggests returning to slavery, though the Left seems determined to impose a modern form of slavery on all of us.
But we should not condemn our ancestors for doing what they believed was right, even though history showed them to be sadly mistaken.

During WWII, my Pennsylvania born Dad took military training at Camp Forrest (named after Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest), Tennessee and after the war married a pretty North Carolina girl, my Mom.
They are recently deceased and lie side by side in a Pennsylvania cemetery, which is where also such old North-South animosities should be buried.