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I have noted for some years, as Mr. Williams has, that “inordinate focus” on things CSA; especially in the battlefield museum shops from Gettysburg to Manassas. Perhaps the most striking was the shop selling nothing but Confederate novelties, in an exclusive up-scale shopping mall in the heart of Washington, D.C. As I wandered in, staring wide-eyed, the shop's owner (Lebanese) strode forward smiling broadly and nodding his head as I pointed in utter disbelief to the Confederate battle standards, T-shirts, hats, beach towels...”Yes...yes...You are thinking in this place, why am I still alive?” Laughing hysterically now, he continued “I DON’ KNOW! These (Black) people they are crazy! My best customers!” Go figure.