Posted on 07/01/2023 1:26:59 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
As July 4 approaches, do we care about things like the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg?
Do we think much about America’s Civil War and that it matters, or we are too stuck in our own private and political civil wars?
After all, it’s never been “this bad” in our country? Don’t we hear someone in the media say that, every week ... maybe every day?
“At the doorway I saw a huge stack of amputated arms and legs, a stack as high as my head!” said Private William Southerton, age 21, 75th Ohio. “The most horrible thing I ever saw in my life! I wish I had never seen it! I sickened.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
"But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract."
4 March 1865
"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
Dumb analogy. Minus the obvious Civil War, Constitutionally this country is about where it was in 1858.
Abraham Lincoln suspended many rights, suppressed the freedom of press, and called upon federal volunteers to fight a war against fellow citizens.
Young men responded in droves to fight for the Federal Government then. Is there the same fidelity to the federal government today?
—” Is there the same fidelity to the federal government today?”
Do not overlook the Copperhead movement.
“During the stalemated “Phoney War” (October 1939 to spring 1940), public opinion in the US was strongly opposed to entering the war. A poll in March 1940 found that 96 percent of Americans were against going to war with Germany.”
“At the doorway I saw a huge stack of amputated arms and legs, a stack as high as my head!”
How many were black? Female?
On July 4th you should be focusing on the American Revolution - not the Civil War.
The basic premise of the article is spot on: The claim that “it’s never been this bad” is a Big Lie.
But the core of that lie is the false claim that systemic racism fatally infected our Founding and the Constitution.
The Civil war was tragic indeed, and there are important lessons to be learned from it. However, it is also a fact that the history of the Civil War has been weaponized to promote the Big Lie of systemic racism in our Founding.
The proper focus on Independence Day is the War of Independence.
There’s your reparations right there. Paid for in blood.
An equally important battle came to a close on the same day at Vicksburg.
Harry Turtledove has some “revised history” novels where the South won the war. They are usually series’ of books. In one series, World War I has a US front. North sides with Germany and South sides with France and England.
It’s not pretty.
Thank God North America is not broken up into small countries like Europe. Then again, I now see the US as 50 separate “mostly sovereign” countries, just like the EU. I avoid several of them due to their draconian laws regarding gun ownership and use.
A proper focus of July 1 is the remembrance of the 160th anniversary of a watershed moment in our history. July 4th, 1863 was momentous. Vicksburg fell and Lee was defeated.
July 4, 1776 remembrance is 3 days away.
—”On July 4th you should be focusing on the American Revolution - not the Civil War.”
“History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”
– Mark Twain.
White lives don’t matter.
>> public opinion in the US was strongly opposed to entering the war
Nothing a foreign invasion on a major US naval installation couldn’t solve.
—”There’s your reparations right there. Paid for in blood.”
Worth repeating.
And I would add ...blood AND TREASURE.
We should have picked our own damn cotton.
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Totally agree with you.
Except, just incidentally the topic of the article was based on Gettysburg, which unfortunately butts up against the Declaration anniversary.
So, indeed Independence Day should be about the RevWar, and only the RevWar if you ask me. Now, it’s not about WWII and Vietnam etc. sorry, it just ain’t.
Actually it finished July 3.
Brilliant.
bkmk
General Robert E. Lee was an AMERICAN of great honor.
I say that and am not of the South, my ancestors fought for the North.
One of my elderly uncles told me. “But for a couple of miles and a river, we would have been heathens.”
You can post any BS, but good propaganda is fact-based and mostly factual.
Not total BS that you post.
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