[Colonel Kangaroo]

It's fitting that there is an effort here to procure memorial bricks for Confederate veterans because the people behind the southern secession in 1860-61 were certainly a few bricks shy of a load.

[conservativehusker]

“It’s fitting that there is an effort here to procure memorial bricks for Confederate veterans because the people behind the southern secession in 1860-61 were certainly a few bricks shy of a load..”

Ya kinda like the folks on here that feel that States rights actually mean something../sarcasm

If you actually believe what you wrote and it’s not a /sarcasm post, I suggest you actually study the history and reasons for things instead of just having a stupid, uninformed knee jerk reaction to things...

[Texas Fossil]

It's fitting that there is an effort here to procure memorial bricks for Confederate veterans because the people behind the southern secession in 1860-61 were certainly a few bricks shy of a load."

For you information the last Civil was not fought about slavery.

Your statement may be accepted in some parts of the U.S., but it will not in others. My ancestors were all on the loosing side of that war, and were literally burned out of Alabama during Reconstruction. They played the GTT (Gone To Texas) option then.

They refused to be Slaves on the corrupt Government Plantation then, and I refuse NOW. I will die opposing the destruction of this nation.

To show disrespect to those who fought for the South is not acceptable behavior with me.

[Nosterrex]

As a descendant of a Confederate veteran, I find your remarks not only insulting but misinformed. I do not wish to fight the Civil War all over again on this forum; however, those who fought for State's Rights and independence from an oppressive government were only exercising the same rights that those colonist/rebels claimed in the Revolutionary War. From the British point of view, I am sure that they too thought the colonist were a few bricks short. The majority of the rights that members of the FR discuss are no different than what those patriots in the Civil War fought for in their war for Southern Independence. Make all the fun that you want of these brave men and women, who gave their life for this cause, and many of their offspring have fought for this country since the Civil War. You do them no honor by attacking their loved ones.

[jocon307]

“Attached to the letter was a copy of Public Law 85-425 as adopted in 1958, which defined the status of Confederate veterans and established for them federal pension rates exactly the same as those afforded to Union veterans.”

Can someone explain this? How could anyone be recieving a pension in 1958 from a war 100 years previous?

[autumnraine]

My great whatever grandfather died in the Civil War. He wasn’t shy of a full load but had this wacky idea that the Federal Government didn’t own the states. He never owned a slave in his life, but died on the Confederate side. I’d like a brick placed for my ancestor. Regardless of your bias.

[kalee]

ping