[CaptainAmiigaf]

I find this photograph heartbreaking!! FIFTY years after one of the bloodiest battles in our history and the combatants reach out to each other and shake hands. Old men, whose brothers in arms are to be FOREVER YOUNG.
I find it heartbreaking because in today’s world the side that lost a mere ELECTION unforginingly fights on with increasing hatred and incitement to violence.
Despite their bitter past, those in the picture would proclaim themselves as AMERICANS.
How and what does today’s LEft choose as the words to label themselves. It sure as hell does not have the same meaning as the AMERICANS in the photo.

[trisham]

I hear you.

[Enlightened1]

Well said and agree 100%

[VeniVidiVici]

I find this photograph heartbreaking!! FIFTY years after one of the bloodiest battles in our history and the combatants reach out to each other and shake hands. Old men, whose brothers in arms are to be FOREVER YOUNG. I find it heartbreaking because in today’s world the side that lost a mere ELECTION unforginingly fights on with increasing hatred and incitement to violence. Despite their bitter past, those in the picture would proclaim themselves as AMERICANS. How and what does today’s LEft choose as the words to label themselves. It sure as hell does not have the same meaning as the AMERICANS in the photo.

Very well put. Thanks.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Well said and I agree. No matter how you slice it, and whether or not you believe that the South had a Constitutional right to secede, these were Americans on both sides ... Americans fighting Americans. Who among those Americans, 150+ years ago, could have envisioned that today, 150+ years later, we’d be battling foreign invaders as well as the so-called “Americans” who side with them, and who purport to call for a “Second Civil War”. What a waste.

[OIFVeteran]

The sout also rebelled because of election results they didn’t like. The Democrats haven’t changed much in 150 years.