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[Moose4]

Oh, you so have to love the agents of "tolerance and diversity." When George Allen issued Confederate History Month proclamations, he received death threats, and had to have his appearance at a school canceled once because of a bomb threat.

If we don't stand up to these people, they'll slowly succeed in eliminating any mention of the Confederacy in anything but the most negative, slanted, and untrue ways.

}:-)4

[Arkinsaw]

The practice of issuing gubernatorial decrees about the Civil War or the Confederacy dates back at least to former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder's term.

In 1990, Mr. Wilder, a Democrat, proclaimed April 7 to 15 the "Final Chapter of the Civil War Days," recalling "those who sacrificed in this great struggle." His document praised Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, but it also lauded President Lincoln and Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

Also, Mr. Wilder, the nation's first black governor, did not remove portraits of Lee and Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson from his office while he was governor from 1990 to 1994.

Regardless of what you think of Wilder, he did the honorable thing and knew he was the Governor of a variety of Virginians with different backgrounds. I will still remember Wilder fondly for behaving honorably and leaving those portraits up during his term. If everyone behaved in such a manner in these arguments then the problem would have long since faded.

[Al B.]

FYI...your governor at work.

[CurlyBill]