"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?
“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.
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is attacking Christian liberated Russia
via ukraine
slave state northerners
by the majority
are supporting them ( orcs - overlords )
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The area around Gettysburg is still beautiful today. Worth a trip.
July 2, 1863 - Day 2- my great great grandfather James Edwards Jones of the 8th New Jersey, wounded.
My 9th great grandfather Derick Hollenbeck 8th Albany Militia was on duty at West Point when his Commanding Officer Benedict Arnold committed his treason and was there when British Spy Master John Andre was executed in September/October 1780.
John Hollenbeck, my 8th great uncle served in the War of 1812.
These men make me proud of my family and my country.